Tapanappa Tiers 1.5m Chardonnay 2023

  • 96
  • $90
  • Drink by: 2024-2034

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In 2003, Brian Croser and his family took 1.3 hectares of the famous Tiers vineyard in the Piccadilly Valley, originally planted in 1979, and replanted it with the French Bernard clones, 76 and 95, in very close, 1.5 metre, spacing. Since 2015, the wine has shown sufficient differences to deserve bottling on its own. Just 350 dozen made. There is a cool year elegance and leanness to this wine. Beautifully balanced and quite intense, the wine is wonderfully seamless and seductive. An utterly stunning Chardonnay with a line of juicy saline acidity, we have notes of jasmine, white peaches and lemon. There is immaculate balance for the full length of the wine. A cracking Chardonnay, which will provide at least eight to ten years of pleasure.

Ken Gargett
Contributor at Winepilot

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.

Wine writer and critic
Pilot
Ken Gargett
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Variety: White Wine, Chardonnay
Categories: Drinks, Australian Wines