2024 Falanghina

Region

100% McLaren Vale

Winemaker

Corrina Wright, 6th Generation

Winemaking

Vegan friendly. Sustainable Winegrowing Australia certified.

Grape Variety

100% Falanghina (pron. FAH-lahn-GHEE-nah)

History

With 100 ha of premium grapevines on the Taranga property, the Oliver family has over 50 blocks representing different grape varieties, clones, soil types & vine ages. Each vintage, different varieties & blocks will show their strength and from this has been born the ‘SMALL BATCH’ range. Made in small batches of less than two tonnes, these wines have been handcrafted to speak of both the variety and the vintage in which they have been produced.

Aroma

Lifted honeydew and tangello notes, orange blossom and cumquat. Touch of melted butter.

Wine & Vintage

Falan....what?!?!? Don’t worry if you haven’t yet heard of this variety, it’s very new to Australia. It hails from the same region as Fiano, in Campania around Naples, and we are very excited to now have it planted in the Taranga vineyard. This Falanghina (pron Fah-Lahn-Gee-Nah) is made with minimal intervention in a concrete egg.

Palate

Texture fills the palate, popcorn and honeydew melon. Fresh red anjou pears, waldorf salad, cleansing acid and silky tannins to finish.

The Year That Continued

We have been waiting for Falanghina for such a long time. Wine industry legends, the Chalmers Family, have long been bringing in new to Australia Italian grape varieties. Did you know that there are thousands of Italian varieties, dwarfing the number of typically French varietals that were planted in Australia. It is a very long process to get a new grape variety into Australia. We have very strict importation of plant matter laws here for good reason, we would hate to have a pest introduced that spoilt our natural environment. However, because of this, it takes somewhere around 10 years to get a vine cutting through quarantine. Once it is out, you still don’t really know how it will translate to the wine regions of Australia, so it is a very long process indeed. We have been on the wait-list to get this variety for a long time, and now it is finally here! Corrina was enthralled by the variety during her visits to Campania over the years and hopes that this first iteration does the variety justice.

Small Batch Production

2477

Colour

Pale straw

Alcohol

13%