Oliver’s Taranga Anfore Fiano 2023
- 92
- $55
- Drink by: 2025-2028
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A new look for the Fiano grape which is aged in clay amphorae (anfore) and unfined and unfiltered. Cloudy golden hues apply here. Expect a highly textural, savoury, long lasting, richly endowed wine in the most enduring flavours of stewed spiced apple, honeyed tropical fruits moving into mango with flashes of chervil, herbs and almond. It’s stacked in flavour and offers a very different view of the Fiano grape to what we normally see. Acidity can struggle to keep up with the fully packed palate of flavour which, to me, translates to earlier drinking pleasure with this wine. The maker suggests partnering it with food – a good idea. I’ll have slow-roasted shoulder of pork with baked apples.
Jeni Port is one of Australia’s top wine communicators. Based in Melbourne, Jeni created the first wine column in the (then) Sun News-Pictorial before moving over to The Age and becoming that paper’s longest-serving wine writer. Over the years she has written for most Australian wine magazines and these days calls WinePilot home. She is also a Tasting Panel member on the Halliday Wine Companion. She was named Wine Communicator of the Year and Legend of the Melbourne Food and Wine Festival in 2014 and in 2018 Legend of the Vine. She is a founding board member of Australian Women In Wine and is the co-deputy chair of Australia’s Wine List of the Year Awards and China’s Wine List of the Year Awards.
