Product Details

Apiana

2024
Clare Valley
‘The most prestigious fiano in the country! Sound the alarms!’ – Mike Bennie, Halliday Wine Companion. This is my favourite Fiano in Australia. – Erin Larkin, The Wine advocate US

$55.00

Released: September 1st, 2024

Specific clones of this indigenous grape from Campania, grown on poor soil at the Grosset Rockwood Vineyard, on a cool-site in the Clare Valley, have resulted in an extraordinarily powerful and aromatic expression of the variety. This year, there is a greater intensity of flavour which flows through the wine and lingers on the dry finish: bees-wax, candied honey, bliss.

Ageing Potential: Drink now – 20 years

Produced from fiano grown biodynamically at the Grosset Rockwood Vineyard

Unfined- vegan and vegetarian friendly

Tyson Stelzer's Top 250 Australian Wines of 2024
Tyson Stelzer
94 Points
I love the energising touch of the cool 2024 season on the presence and texture of fiano, creating a wonderful contrast between citrus zest and energy and the food-matching dexterity of supple texture and understated exoticism. Lemon and pear meet the slightest nuances of almost ripe passionfruit. The result is one of the most compelling fianos I’ve tasted.
Erin Larkin, The Wine Advocate US
94 Points
After a day of tasting a lot (a LOT) of full-bodied reds, this is a most welcome glass. In truth, the Grosset delivery arrived halfway through the day, and so I positioned these four 2024 whites from Grosset at the end of the tasting as a special treat for myself. I'm glad to have arrived in one piece. So, this 2024 Apiana Fiano leads with nashi pear and green apple, white pepper, pressed flowers and chalky talc. It even has that lovely Riesling talc-y thing going on here, and it is very pretty for it. On the palate, the wine is thick with flavor, viscose and yet totally composed and balanced. This is a lovely, welcome, wine here, highly recommended. This is my favourite Fiano in Australia.
Mike Bennie, Halliday Wine Companion
93 Points
The most prestigious fiano in the country! Sound the alarms! Good energy here, a crunch of nashi pear, light almond notes, quirky but appealing kombu seaweed characters and saline minerality. It slips along the palate with a little waxiness and finishes with a brittle, pleasingly fresh trill of lemon-gingery flavours and a lick more brine. Gently savoury, though quite shy and delicate at the same time. Pretty wine.