Product Profile
Tapanappa 'Joanna' Wrattonbully Cabernet Shiraz 2007
Medium Bodied, Dry, Red, Cabernet Sauvignon and Shiraz, Drink now or cellar, 13.7% alc.
Tasting Notes
2007 Tapanappa Wrattonbully Cabernet Shiraz has the very ripe fruit flavours and texture of this exceptionally small and early vintage. Despite the ripeness the alcohol is in balance and the silky ripe tannins meld with the ripe fruit flavours.
The 2007 Tapanappa Cabernet Shiraz retains the elegant structure and the earthy, anise and Eucalypt smoke flavours of the Joanna, Wrattonbully terroir.
2007 Tapanappa Wrattonbully Cabernet-Shiraz is “a pure expression of the unique Joanna Wrattonbully 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.