PETILIA FIANO D'AVELLINO 2025 - white

Style: Spicy & BrightIntroducing Petilia, Fiano d’Avelino from Italy. Drive into the estate and their mum's small house and thriving garden (it’s double the size of the house) first catches your eye. Fifty metres down the road leads to their winery, surrounded by their organically farmed vineyards of greco that’s buzzing with life and vigour. Deep in Irpinia, they are in greco country, and theirs is packed with charm and Campanian wit. It won over NYT wine critic, Eric Asimov who’d never been a believer. Tom Hyland from Forbes is also fan, listing Petillia’s Greco in his Top 50 white wines of Italy! They also have vineyards close by where they grow fiano, falanghina and aglianico. Roberto talks often about his ‘traditional’ winemaking styles, in effect, he embraces stainless steel to ferment the whites to showcase the DNA of the grapes. The red, algianico sees some larger tonneaux, mostly older and French. In essence, nothing detracts from the true identity of each grape. Roberto is a brilliant enabler, he lets the grapes be the best they can be.After tasting in the cellar with Roberto and Teresa it’s immediate how authentic and riveting these wines are. Each stays true to their varietal; the fiano is a mix of ripe stonefruits and honey framed in an athletic and sinewy phenolic frame, complete with a saline bite.These are original and riveting wines, bonded together by their volcanic soils. Their expressions shimmer with originality and purity. While their flavour profiles differ, they possess a wonderful buoyancy and rocky mineralilty. PWSGolden in colour. Grilled nectarines, ginger and tangerine mix with crushed rocks on the nose. Its flavoursome core flows nicely across the palate, there's just the right amount of flesh to minerally tension. Nectarines and ginger follow through on the core with an underlying simmer of minerally tension, signs off with a saline bite. Pass me the buffalo mozzarella please. GABRIELLE POY (2024 vintage)Region: Campania, ITALYVariety: FianoABV: 13.5%Liquor Act 2007. It is against the law to sell or supply alcohol to, or to obtain alcohol on behalf of a person under the age of 18 years. Lic No. LIQP770016424 *We endeavour to ensure the correct vintage is displayed, however some variations may occur in store and for delivered bottles.