Description
Bella’s Fiano named after our newest addition to the family, Bella the border collie. A new project in the area of emerging Italian varieties that has been on the drawing board for a couple of years. In 2024 we were lucky enough to secure 2 tons of fruit from a well-established vineyard on Springfarm Road and the project came to life, then in 2025 a frost event stopped us producing the next vintage which was disappointing as the wine was very popular. 2026 had another frost event that again impacted our potential to produce a wine, so it forced us to seek parcels of fruit outside of the Clare Valley.
McLaren Vale was the obvious choice, and we were lucky enough to secure a couple of tons from a grower in McLaren Vale which we hope to work with again going forward. Keeping to the 2024 formula to produce a similar profile Fiano we maintained similar winemaking techniques to produce a more textural style with 25% of the juice left on lees in barrel for 4 months before we blended it back with the free run juice in tank.
The wine shows lovely acidity with fresh pear, citrus, apricot and hint of honey and nuttiness. Lovely textural mouthfeel and acidity makes this a lovely food wine and will develop further in the bottle with a couple of years cellaring.
Food Match: Creamy Chicken Pasta
Drink Now or cellar for 2-3years
ONLY 140 Dozen produced
pH – 3.20
TA – 7.8
Alc – 12.4%
RS – 0.4%
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