Product Profile
Tapanappa 'Parawa' Fleurieu Peninsula Pinot Noir 2010
Medium Bodied, Dry, Red, Pinot Noir, Drink now or cellar, 12.9% alc.
Tasting Notes
2010 Tapanappa Fleurieu Peninsula Pinot Noir is the product of a warm vintage in a very cool site. The fruit is very ripe and plummy but with the nuances of the exotic spices and florals which make Pinot’s elusive “peacock’s tail”. The palate is fruit sweet but with a definite but silky tannin structure, always retaining the delicacy and elegance, which is the hallmark of this fastidious variety.
2010 Tapanappa Fleurieu Peninsula Pinot Noir is “a pure expression of the unique Parawa, Fleurieu Peninsula 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.