The Tiers Vision

Chardonnay had only emerged in Australia in the mid 1970’s and to underline the extent of the experiment and risk, The Tiers was one of the first Chardonnay vineyards in South Australia as well as being the first vineyard in the Adelaide Hills.

Brian Croser had identified the central Adelaide Hills as one of the best places in Australia to plant Chardonnay based on the cool climate requirement of this early ripening variety. This requirement was reinforced by his experience of Chardonnay in the emerging Californian "boutique" wine industry in the early 1970’s, typified by the wines of Freemark Abbey, Chalone, Robert Mondavi, Mayacamus, Hanzell and Spring Mountain, pre-eminent among others.