2024 Fiano, Adelaide Hills 

Texture, spice, depth.

Fiano epitomises all the things we love about Italian grape varieties: super delicious, aromatic but with a lovely subtlety, textural with a little bit of grip to the finish, and versatile in the vineyard across the extremes of different grape growing seasons. Pronounceable too!

Climate | Diverse but largely cooler due to elevation.

Season |The 2024 growing season started wet and cool, then finished warm and dry during the ripening period.

Source | This ancient Campanian variety loves the warm sunny days and cool nights of Kersbrook in the northern Adelaide Hills, with the addition of a new, more elevated, close planted Woodside vineyard in 2022.

Winemaking | 58% was fermented in tank with fluffy lees after partial settling, giving us bright fruit, and 42% was barrel fermented in old French oak for a delicious textural component, including a mixture of wild ferment on full solids and then the balance with partially settled juice. Vegan friendly.

Style | Trademark chalky minerality, coupled with a lemon pith/bitter almond grip on the finish, making a tantalisingly textured palate and savoury finish. Fiano always speaks strongly of its vintage which in 2023 highlights the long, cool season creating bright citrus characters and flavoursome depth.

Release | November 2024

(2023 Vintage) 20 Best White Wines of the Year, Nick Ryan - The Weekend Australian Magazine "Sam Scott has been exploring the potential of Italian varieties in Australia longer than most, and his mastery of Fiano is on full display here. He nails the combination of fragrance and texture that makes Fiano work, allowing the preserved lemons and soft herbs to shine and framing them with the fine phenolic grip that makes the best examples so satisfying."

(2023 Vintage) Five Fab Fianos to Try, Max Allen - Financial Review "Half fermented in tank, half in older barrels, with some wild yeast and plenty of lees and grape solids. A crisp, very modern, tangy and lively expression of fiano, dialling up the green apple and pear crunch. A really good example of how Fiano can be super-appealing as a fresh young wine."