NEW RELEASE

2025 Fiano

$29.00 / bottle

Our winemaker Corrina Wright is known in the wine business as the Queen of Fiano for good reason! Prepare your palate for a textural journey with this Fiano. One minute it’s all pine nuts and cashew, the next it’s kaffir lime and fresh basil with a touch of the tropics. Drink with anything spicy, or just to spice up your life.

Specifications Reviews Video

Specifications

Region

100% McLaren Vale

Winemaker

Corrina Wright, 6th Generation

Winemaking

Vegan friendly. Sustainable Winegrowing Australia certified.

Grape Variety

100% Fiano

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.

Aroma

Pear skin, lemon pith, elderflower, white pepper, slight salt spray. Baked brie with olive oil and cut herbs.

Palate

Creamy and pithy all at once. Golden delicious, juicy peach, preserved lemon, textural purity and length. Juicy varietal finish, fresh and zesty, with oodles of generosity.

Wine & Vintage

Fiano is a relatively new variety to Australia, and originates from the Campania region of Italy. Fiano is super heat and drought tolerant, being able to maintain acidity in the grapes even in our hot South Australian summers. This minimal intervention Fiano is made with indigenous yeast and includes portions fermented in concrete eggs and large format French oak.

The Year That Continued

We were very thrilled to receive a trophy for our 2024 Oliver’s Taranga Fiano at the McLaren Vale Wine Show. The McLaren Vale Wine show is an institution in our region, that culminates in a massive wine community lunch known locally as ‘The Bushing Festival’. This celebration has been going for more than 50 years, and at this event the wine show trophy winners are announced. Much singing and eating and chatting happens throughout the lunch, until the final, and most sought after, trophy is announced - The Bushing King or Queen is crowned. Awarded to the best wine of the McLaren Vale wine show each year, the winner gets to adorn robes and crown, and be adored by the region! While we didn’t win the big award (in fact a white wine has only won once in the more than 50 year history!), we were thrilled to have our Fiano recognised, and shall continue celebrating well into 2025!

Colour

Pale Straw

Alcohol

12.5%

Reviews

Sourced from five estate blocks, from six to 21 years old. Pressed mainly to steel, with about 15% in concrete eggs and 10% in second and third passage French oak; high solids with natural yeasts, 25% mlf, and no additions until sulphur at bottling. It’s another excellent release, with the warm and dry year highlighting what a great variety this is for the Vale. Golden apples, preserved lemon, grapefruit pith, sea spray, tonic, a hint of lemon curd and oyster shells. There’s intensity of fruit here, with a textural roundness preceding a pithily racy drive, suspending the flavours long. 95pts

- Marcus Ellis, Halliday Wine Companion

Fiano by name, Fiano by nature, and this is a mighty fine Fiano. Yes, it’s textural and refreshing, but there’s plenty to sink your teeth into too. On the nose, orange blossom, quince, pink grapefruit pith and salt-crusted Meyer lemon. This just smells of the coastline, complete with lovely savoury dried herbal notes – sage and native rosemary dusted with sea spray. The palate follows through, mid-weight and generous in mouthfeel but ZING straight up to the heavens with that bright acidity. Savoury at its core with a fine sandpaper phenolic grip, this is a brilliant food wine, however, don’t limit it to the table. There's a just-fleshy finish that wraps it up, so you'll be able to enjoy on a summer day no matter how far away dinner is. A green-almond-slash-fuzzy-peach-skin finish keeps this taut and very, very, moreish. Drink now with plenty of joie de vivre. 95pts

- Cass Charlick

Boom! This Oliver's Taranga is taking me back to sipping Fiano in Sorrento, a picturesque seaside town in Campania, the home of this fascinating variety. I'm all in here. The detail. The complexity. The sheer joy and drinkability it delivers. Some prefer their Fiano to be clean, but the depth, grip and intrigue this release delivers puts others on notice, from no one else but the Queen of Fiano. White florals open the scene alongside pears, lemon zest and lime juice, with hints of almond meal and cashew adding gentle depth. A touch of honey emerges, too. Corrina Wright often mentions a basil character in her Fiano, and I see once again where she is going with that. Despite the layers of complexity, the wine maintains freshness and beautifully balanced acidity. After two decades in Australia, Fiano is firmly establishing its place among the country’s great whites. Fittingly, October 17 marks the inaugural International Fiano Day, an occasion founded by the Queen of Fiano herself. Get around this Fiano and your weekend wind-downs will hit different. 95pts

- QWine

Glacé fruits of peach, pineapple and apple blossoms. Lemon sorbet and a distinct appletini-like aroma. Some acacia and tea rose. A chewy mouthfeel with fruit high and a snake tail of pithy phenolics. Juicy, fragrant and finishing dry, but with notes of steeped lemon slices. All the attractiveness of Fiano is here. Great value, hard not to love. Drink now–2027. 93pts

- Shanteh Wale