Foggy Hill Vineyard Pinot Noir
     
  Brian Croser's lifelong commitment to finding the right sites to make great wine from the noble grape varieties inevitably turned from curiosity about Maylands Farm's potential, to the establishment of the Foggy Hill Pinot Noir Vineyard. The very cool climate, especially the cool day, warm night maritime regime at Parawa and the north facing ironstone slope provide the perfect "terroir" for Pinot Noir.

Foggy Hill Vineyard receives much the same amount of growing season heat as Burgundy, home of the fastidious Pinot Noir variety.

The Croser family have planted 4 hectares of 3 of the very best clones of Pinot Noir from the famous Professor Raymond Bernard selections from Dijon in Burgundy and all are grafted onto rootstocks. The vines are planted a mere 1.5 metres apart and only 500 mms from the ground, a uniquely intensive vineyard for Australia.

The lack of daytime heat spikes and the warm nights aided by radiated ground warmth at Foggy Hill ripens the Pinot Noir grapes early and completely at relatively low final alcohol levels in the wine.		  
 
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Maylands Farm lambs graze calmly alongside the garden perfect close spaced Foggy Hill Vineyard which is destined to be one of the most distinguished sites for Pinot Noir in Australia.

The first Tapanappa Foggy Hill Pinot Noir will be released in early 2008.

Tapanappa is the new wine company started by the Croser family with their French partners, Champagne Bollinger and the Cazes family of Chateau Lynch Bages in Bordeaux. What is more natural than the French returning to the beautiful Fleurieu Peninsula in the wake of their countryman Nicolas Baudin who named it in 1802?

To learn more about Tapanappa and Foggy Hill Pinot Noir visit the Tapanappa web site at www.tapanappawines.com.au.