Rainy and cold vintages are generally considered as not great if not poor but for white varieties it can actually be the other way around given there’s not too much rain resulting in all kinds of undesirable rot esp. botrytis. At Topper’s we make three principal single varietal white wines – Gewurztraminer, Viognier and Manseng. [...]
The 2022 vintage blessed us with abundant rain & humidity thanks to the La Nina driving spring and summer weather for a second year in a row. This time we were better prepared and with a little bit of luck and a great help from our beautiful free draining soil we managed to have a [...]
With the devastating flooding across NSW in the last few weeks, we are now experiencing a shortage of food on our shelves. Max Crus reflects on this in his column whilst reviewing the 2016 Topper's Mountain Pinot Noir M.T. Brut Nature and the 2021 Pink Submarine: "Luckily, you can live on bread, sardines, and toilet [...]
As the harvest of vintage 2022 is coming closer we are looking for volunteers to join our picking team! Most of our grapes are picked by hand to maintain the highest possible quality of the fruit. That demands lots of keen pickers who wouldn’t mind to start with a sunrise and enjoy one of the [...]
