Tapanappa Tiers 1.5M Vineyard Chardonnay 2025

Written By Campbell Mattinson
Bottle of Tapanappa Tiers 1.5M Vineyard Chardonnay 2025.

Tapanappa Tiers 1.5M Vineyard Chardonnay 2025
$90, 13.6% alcohol, screwcap, Adelaide Hills.

Grown on one of the best chardonnay vineyards in the Adelaide Hills and, by extension, therefore in Australia.

This is a terrific chardonnay. There’s plenty of razzle dazzle but then there’s also substance, texture and length. Flint, pear, tonic water, lemonade and pure, ripe peach characters come infused with cedar, woodsmoke and mineral. It’s a wine of power, drive and insistence. It’s a beauty. 95 points.

Campbell Mattinson

Campbell Mattinson has been an independent journalist, wine critic and photographer for forty years. He founded The Winefront, is a former chief editor of the Halliday Wine Companion (and former editor of Halliday magazine), and is the only Australian to have won the Australian Wine Communicator of the Year Award more than once. He is 100% independent, and tastes between 5,000 and 10,000 wines each year, blind and in comparative brackets as often as is practicable.

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Mattinson is also the founder of the Mattinson Photography business.

https://www.campbellmattinson.com
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