Tapanappa Foggy Hill Vineyard Pinot Noir 2024
- 95
- $60
- Drink by: 2025-2033
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2024 was a difficult vintage for Brian Croser and his team at the Foggy Hill vineyard. The conditions meant it would be one of the very smallest crops he has encountered in his long and illustrious career. Limited might be but the quality of the fruit certainly helped make up for the meagre yield. For this vintage, no whole fruit was included in the fermentation. Maturation was for eight months in barriques. Just 450 cases made. A gleaming pale crimson hue, there is a gorgeous nose here, slightly sappy and savoury but already exhibiting early complexity. We have notes of raspberries, truffles, leaf litter, maraschino cherries and spices. A silky texture through to the very fine tannins, the length is seriously impressive and there is excellent balance throughout. Expect this to drink beautifully for eight years plus. A cracking Pinot Noir.
Ken was born and bred in Brisbane, Queensland. He had a non-trendy, perfectly happy childhood, in a family convinced alcohol meant instant condemnation to Hades. But a break fishing on the Great Barrier Reef, and some good wine, started a serious obsession that eventually took over. It did not stop Ken being chastised later for drinking Pol champagne, disgusted he’d drink anything made by a Cambodian dictator. Now, Ken mostly writes on wine, champagne and spirits for various newspapers, magazines and books, but is perhaps best known for his work in The Courier Mail. He also has a little sideline writing on cigars, fishing, travel and food. When not writing, fly-fishing for trout in NZ or bonefish on the flats of Cuba, travelling or smoking cigars, he is no doubt following a variety of sporting teams – the occasionally glorious Queensland Reds rugby, the dysfunctional Washington Redskins, the dodgy Arsenal and especially revels in the world restored to its proper axis with the return of the Ashes to their rightful home.
