Tapanappa is the Croser family's wine company, led by pioneering winemaker Brian Croser and focused on what it calls "Distinguished Sites" across South Australia. This Piccadilly Valley Chardonnay draws on three vineyards of around 40 years of age on the western slopes of the Piccadilly Valley, a cool, elevated pocket of the Adelaide Hills.
The fruit is hand-harvested and chilled in trays before whole, cold bunches go into gentle airbag presses. The juice is fermented in French oak barriques, around a third of them new, over roughly two months in the cool autumn, then the wine rests on full lees before being racked clear and bottled.
The 2025 season was the warmest, driest and earliest on record for the valley, and the wine reflects it with a green-gold colour, aromas of very ripe yellow peach and fresh fig, and rich, ripe flavours with plenty of texture. Bright acidity cleans up the finish and balances the generous fruit.
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