Haselgrove Alternative Series McLaren Vale Fiano 2024
- 92
- $26
- Drink by: 2024-2030
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Four hours on skins, with the free run juice and pressings kept separate. Fermentation was in a mix of stainless steel and French oak, with the portion in oak fermented under wild yeasts. McLaren Vale is proving to be such a great place to grow this variety and this is simply more evidence of that. The colour of this fine Fiano is a very pale lemon. The nose exhibits notes of stone fruits, florals, apricots, figs and peaches with a chalky and minerally backing. This is a wine of depth and yet offers good freshness. There is serious concentration here, and a long finish with crunchy acidity with touches of pears and apples emerging on the palate. Enjoy over the next four to six years.
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.
