Fiano 2024

This was Baker’s top wine, and it also featured in Moret and Szyman’s top-six lists. “A light golden colour, the nose is ripe and slightly exotic, showing aromas of leatherwood honey, beeswax, peach-like stone fruit, honeysuckle flowers and hazelnuts backed up with hints of flinty minerality,” wrote Baker. “The palate was rich, textured and complex, possibly from some skin contact or lees stirring. The rich honeyed characters balanced by refreshing flavours of pure white peach, pink lady apples and lingering understated salt and spice.” Szyman thought that the wine “achieves a lovely balance of sumptuous lime sorbet-esque acidity and soft golden apple fruit character, with an edge of savouriness that evokes green almonds and warm honey.” “Lemon oil, hazelnut, rock salt and grapefruit pith aromas,” wrote Moret. “The palate is very varietal with pineapple, sea salt/green olive brine, apricot and floral notes. Stylish and tight with great length – a classy example that would appeal to a lot of people, with a subtler intensity than some of the other examples, not quite as overt or showy, but with a quiet elegance.”