Product Profile
Tapanappa Piccadilly Valley Chardonnay 2010
Medium Bodied, Dry, White, Chardonnay, Drink now or cellar, 12.8% alc.
Tasting Notes
2010 Tapanappa Piccadilly Valley Chardonnay has ripe peach flavours and aromas. Because of the warm vintage there are no melon skin nuances as there are in cooler years in the Piccadilly Valley and the fruit is completely ripe. Despite the warm year, the structure of Tapanappa Piccadilly Valley Chardonnay is typically savoury with a moderate alcohol and refreshing acid finish to a significant mouth feel and viscosity, the hallmarks of Piccadilly Valley Chardonnay. The nuances of spicy oak, yeast lees and full malo-lactic fermentation build the complexity of flavour and aroma expected of the best examples of this wonderful variety. 2010 Tapanappa Piccadilly Valley Chardonnay “is a pure expression of the unique Piccadilly Valley terroir.”
Producer
Tapanappa
Tapanappa winery is named after a 550 million year old geological formation that underlies the Fleurieu Peninsula where the Croser family have a sheep farm and vineyard. Tapanappa combines “old vines, new terroirs, experienced winemaking and energetic skilled young management.” Brian Croser founded Petaluma with his wife Ann in 1976, and in 1978 they pioneered the development of the modern Adelaide Hills viticultural region. At Petaluma, Brian developed his “distinguished site” philosophy, discovering unique sites in the Piccadilly Valley and Mt Barker in the Adelaide Hills, and in the Clare Valley and Coonawarra. Brian remains committed to the development of new cool climate “distinguished sites” for specific varieties, his latest pioneering planting being the Pinot Noir at Foggy Hill Vineyard, Parawa on the Southern Fleurieu Peninsula.