2010 Witches Falls Fiano

The grapes come from the Gold Coast hinterland where Witches Falls is located (Mt Tamborine), in Boyland from the vineyard of Steve Cerutti. Fiano is a southern Italian grape, from the Campagna region. The 2010 Fiano  is very pale lemon in colour with a greenish tinge. It smells and tastes of almond (bitter perhaps) and green apple (unripe perhaps). There isn't a great variation between the aroma and palate. But it is distinctive in the mouth. Dry and attention-grabbing. It's probably best with food, like fish, of light flavour such as whiting or garfish, which it could overwhelm. For the label disagrees. It says the wine is sturdy and is in need of a richer fish. Which, now I think about it, is true: so perhaps trout is better. What's most exciting is that this is still an alternative; in fact Max Allen considers it a minor alternative white. And my favourite SA winery, Coriole, for producing a great chenin blanc, is the only other Australian fiano I have tried.