2024 Tapanappa Foggy Hill Vineyard Pinot Noir, Fleurieu Peninsula

2024 was a difficult vintage for Brian Croser and his team at the Foggy Hill vineyard. The conditions meant it would be one of the very smallest crops he has encountered in his long and illustrious career. Limited might be but the quality of the fruit certainly helped make up for the meagre yield. For this vintage, no whole fruit was included in the fermentation. Maturation was for eight months in barriques. Just 450 cases made. A gleaming pale crimson hue, there is a gorgeous nose here, slightly sappy and savoury but already exhibiting early complexity. We have notes of raspberries, truffles, leaf litter, maraschino cherries and spices. A silky texture through to the very fine tannins, the length is seriously impressive and there is excellent balance throughout. Expect this to drink beautifully for eight years plus. A cracking Pinot Noir. Drink 2025-2033.

95 points Ken Gargett for Wine Pilot, October 2025

A beautiful ruby hue with purple flecks throughout. A very cool year resulted in lower yields than usual, but this vintage is no less distinctive of Foggy Hill. It's firm in its youth but has a pleasing purity and sincerity of fruit – cranberry, crunchy red apple, some bramble, potpourri, clove and cedar notes, too. Something leafy and vegetal does thread its way through, but not obnoxiously so; instead, it adds another layer of interest.

94 points Katrina Butler for Halliday Wine Companion, October 2025

Refined and pure, with floral and minerally aromas of wild raspberries, dried strawberries, hibiscus, rose petals and crushed river stones. The palate is delicate and refined, with fine tannins, bright acidity and a crunchy, saline finish. Elegant and perfumed. Drink or hold.

94 points James Suckling, August 2025

A riot of rosemary, tomato leaf, freshly turned earth, black and red cherry compote on the nose leads into an intense and suave core. A scaffolding of fine tannins provides structure for the pitch perfect black and red berries and savoury tones. Its assured framework and depth of flavour ensure this will age nicely, although its youthful nervosity charms right now. Drink 2025-2032

92 points Gabrielle Poy, November 2025

The Foggy Hill Vineyard sits at 350 metres at Parawa, the highest point of the Fleurieu Peninsula, planted in 2003 to Dijon clones 115 and 777. It is a remote and windswept site, isolated from other vineyards, sitting between the warmth of the South Australian interior and the cool Southern Ocean — and that tension is what gives Foggy Hill Pinot its distinctive character.

The 2024 vintage was one of the most challenging Brian Croser has encountered at this site. Only the 777 clone provided viable fruit, from just one third of the vineyard, at a yield of 2.5 tonnes per hectare. Just 450 dozen were made. The fruit was fully destemmed and fermented for 16 days with five days of skin maceration, then eight months in French oak barriques with one third new.

Pomegranate, strawberry, cherry flesh and rosewater on the nose, with a savoury thread of thyme, anise and gunflint. The palate is taut and precise with fine, tensile tannins, vibrant acidity and a long, focused finish. A wine that asks for patience but rewards it generously. Pretty remarkable for a wine at 12.7% alcohol. 

Roast duck, seared salmon, a pork belly with Asian aromatics or a quiet meal where the wine can be appreciated properly.

Drink now through 2031.