Oliver’s Taranga Small Batch Fiano 2023
- 95
- $28
- Drink by: 2023-2028
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Potential with a capital P, this young Fiano is still in early building phase. The scaffolds up – acidity is keen – and the main works are in place, but it has a little way to go, revealing a serious quality side to the Italian grape variety. Everything sits beautifully in place in readiness. Nashi pear, green apple, spice, lemongrass are a little reserved now, but are the building blocks for a bright future. Texture is also in place and something of a treat. There are hints of a gentle savouriness, too, but this is something that will awaken with a little more time. A top example of a serious Fiano from a difficult vintage.
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.
