Oliver’s Taranga Anfore Fiano 2023

The royal treatment for the best parcels of fruit, maturing in Italian amphorae for 15 months on lees. This invokes baklava and honey cakes. Crumbled walnut, nectarine and grapefruit skin. There is almond meal, kiwi and breakfast juice. A mosaic of fruit and edibles. Acidity is a spitfire on the palate lively, spontaneous and electric. A hum of fine lacey phenolics and lingering apple skin flavours too. This is utterly delicious but equally a wine truly worth mulling over, in a big old Chardonnay glass. I’d love to see this wine flakey white fish like whiting and a buttery lemon sauce. Drink now and has the ability to age for 5-8 years in the cellar.

Shanteh Wale

Contributor at Wine Companion

Shanteh cut her teeth at Sydney’s Award-Winning Quay restaurant where she worked for over a decade and was Head Sommelier from 2018 till 2022. She has been nominated for the Good Food Guide Sommelier of the Year award on three occasions and claims that her experience as a Len Evans scholar as one of the highlights of her career. Shanteh hosts her own weekly podcast ‘Over A Glass’ with the Deep in the Weeds Network and spends her time writing for various publications and judging at numerous wine shows across the country.

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