Oliver’s Taranga Anfore Fiano 2024
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- $56
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The team’s best Fiano is aged in three Terracotta anfore (Italian for amphora), hence the name. Corrina got the idea from a trip to Campania, which revealed just how textural these wines can be. Only 800 bottles are made, but it really should be on your bucket list. Unfiltered and unfined, it is definitely a different take on Fiano but a welcome one. The colour is a deep straw, and the nose full of notes of orange rinds, almonds, mandarins and apricot kernels. There is excellent balance throughout, the supple and seductive texture that they seek, good focus and energy, with drive and bright acidity. Very persistent. How long to age this? It would be worth buying a few bottles and trying one every year.
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.
