Tapanappa Definitus Foggy Hill Vineyard Pinot Noir 2022
- 94
- $90
- Drink by: 2025-2033
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If Foggy Hill Vineyard is the essence of what Brian Croser calls a “Distinguished Site,” then Definitus drills down further to a “Distinguished Block.” Definitus – Latin for defined or precise – captures Adelaide Hills Pinot in lovely clarity. A cool, low crop vintage, 2022 has delivered lifted scents of wild strawberry, cherry, cranberry with leaf, truffle and earth. As a three-year-old, Definitus is still very much forming and, with air, opens up beautifully with concentrated flavour and intensity. Classic lacy, fine flavours flourish, but there is an understated power lying at its core driven by fine, sinewy and lasting tannins. It has further aging very much on its mind.
Jeni Port is one of Australia’s top wine communicators. Based in Melbourne, Jeni created the first wine column in the (then) Sun News-Pictorial before moving over to The Age and becoming that paper’s longest-serving wine writer. Over the years she has written for most Australian wine magazines and these days calls WinePilot home. She is also a Tasting Panel member on the Halliday Wine Companion. She was named Wine Communicator of the Year and Legend of the Melbourne Food and Wine Festival in 2014 and in 2018 Legend of the Vine. She is a founding board member of Australian Women In Wine and is the co-deputy chair of Australia’s Wine List of the Year Awards and China’s Wine List of the Year Awards.
