Oliver’s Taranga Fiano 2025

This is the wine that helped start the stampede towards Fiano. It remains a solid benchmark, and no doubt will be celebrated on inaugural National Fiano Day on October 17, established by the maker and like-minded winemaking Fiano believers. I remember tasting the 2011 back in the day with its bitter almond notes and texture and being blown away with its individuality. It is still a feature of Fiano today. Stone fruits, nectarine, white peach, Asian pear aromas mingle with honeysuckle florals, almond and lemon curd. Textural, warm-hearted and cuddly with a gentle nuttiness, it brings additional savoury almond, lemongrass to taste together with bright lemon pastille. Fiano offers no angles, no attitude, it’s sunny and lively and seamless with tangy acidity puts on a star turn. And, boy, does it linger long.

Jeni Port

Wine critic at Winepilot

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.

Wine writer and critic