2005 Tapanappa Chardonnay Tiers

Community Tasting Notes (4) Avg Score: 86.8 points

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  2/6/2013 - isbjoern wrote: 86 Points

  Who says Australian Chardonnay needs to have (over)ripe sweet fruit and a whole lot of oak? Lovely brioche and baked apple nose. On the palate this is much more restrained than most Australian Chardonnays I have had with lots of acidity and an almost unripe fruit of green apples and classic Chablis like Brioche notes and vanilla from high quality oak. Flavors showed much nicer when wine was near room temperature, so don't chill too much! There is not much weight or creaminess to the wine though, the wine is actually pretty simple and juicy on the palate. In short: Great nose, weak palate with slighty unripe fruit, elegant oak flavors, rather short finish. For the price asked one could get many top Chardonnays of the world so I can't really recommend this. - 86 point

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  7/31/2010 - malcclark wrote: 88 Points

  A good cork and fresh wine. Not as wonderful as anticipated: such is life for famous faces! Maybe better next year.

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  12/28/2009 - Alex H wrote: 84 Points

  Family Dinner (French Kitchen): Excellent but more tight than the last time round. This is more mineral , steely and stony now than the butterry mushroomy character. Very well balanced but I really think this has closed up quite a bit. Does have a ice cream soda creaminess now but light, also red apples. Hopefully it restarts business in another few years. At the moment, its at the lower end of the range but does seem to hold more mysteries.

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  5/10/2008 - Alex H wrote: 89 Points

  Light golden. Extremely tight on the nose and palate. It does eventually open up but I suspect that this wine is way too early to drink even with decanting. Extremely dense and intense. A very serious wine. Hits you upfront with an asteroid of co-mingled vapours and flavours...very hard to break it down...it slowly melts like butter on a hot pan into your palate with waves of butter, green fruits, bitter lemons, honey oats and earthy/mineral-like complexity. Throughout the 30mins of tasting, this wine seems unresolved...undecided in its direction...like an adolescent...it just keeps going back and forth with its flavours. I also caught more nuttiness after 15mins...somewhere between cashews, almonds and macadamia. To wrap it up...there are some petrol-like nuances (which Uncle L calls Benzene) lurking at the back palate which is a little too hot for me...almost unbalanced ...but it seems to pull back and gets engulfed in its own evolving atmosphere of vapours. This is dificult to rate being so tight and unsettled. Therefore, at the moment, a range of 83 to 93 is probably the best range we can give. I suspect another year or so in the bottle will stabilise this monster and maybe give it more creaminess. 83+ to 93+pts.

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