The Tiers Vineyard was the first vineyard planted in the Adelaide Hills, with this 2021 vintage from 42-year old vines. Elegance, energy and power in the glass; terroir-driven grapefruit peel and ripe stone fruit aromas, a certain stony minerality, with cashew and spiced oak in the background. Finishes with steely acidity and length that leaves you entranced.

Tapanappa was created in 2002 by Brian and Ann Croser in partnership with Bollinger of Champagne and the Cazes family of Lynch Bages in Pauillac. Today Tapanappa is wholly owned and run by the Croser family of the Piccadilly Valley in the Adelaide Hills, where it began more than forty years ago as Petaluma. Brian Croser has been an innovator in the Australian wine industry for more than forty years, and today Tapanappa has evolved into a complete family fine wine company from vineyard to market. It is managed by Brian’s daughter Lucy and husband Xavier Bizot, while another Croser son-in-law, Sam Barlow, looks after the winery. The word Tapanappa is derived from the local aboriginal language, implying ‘sticking to the path’. This is exactly the philosophy Brian has employed in selecting his distinguished sites, matching the climate, soil and geology of a location to the right varieties, and fastidiously managing the vineyard to make unique Australian terroir-driven wines.