First Ridge Fiano 2025
- 92
- $30
- Drink by: 2026-2032
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The Mudgee region is starting to prove itself as an excellent site for alternative varieties, especially those from Italy. The large collection of bling that these wines are accumulating is testimony to this. This wine was harvested at its ripest, pressed off skins, with 30% undergoing wild fermentation. The colour is a shimmering pale lemon. The nose provides an intriguing combination of minerals, pears, nuts, stone fruits and florals. There is good concentration. This is taut with good intensity and serious length. A very attractive example what Fiano can offer and a wine which should provide pleasure for the next four to six years at least.
Ken was born and bred in Brisbane, Queensland. He had a non-trendy, perfectly happy childhood, in a family convinced alcohol meant instant condemnation to Hades. But a break fishing on the Great Barrier Reef, and some good wine, started a serious obsession that eventually took over. It did not stop Ken being chastised later for drinking Pol champagne, disgusted he’d drink anything made by a Cambodian dictator. Now, Ken mostly writes on wine, champagne and spirits for various newspapers, magazines and books, but is perhaps best known for his work in The Courier Mail. He also has a little sideline writing on cigars, fishing, travel and food. When not writing, fly-fishing for trout in NZ or bonefish on the flats of Cuba, travelling or smoking cigars, he is no doubt following a variety of sporting teams – the occasionally glorious Queensland Reds rugby, the dysfunctional Washington Redskins, the dodgy Arsenal and especially revels in the world restored to its proper axis with the return of the Ashes to their rightful home.
