Freeman Fiano ‘Altura Vineyard’ 2023
Original price was: $36.00.$32.00Current price is: $32.00. inc. GST
AROMA: Tropical fruit, peach and honeysuckle.
PALATE: A refreshing elegant, gently textural wine with a lingering citrussy mineral palate.
FOOD MATCH: Creamy pasta dishes with fresh peas and basil.
Grape Variety: Fiano
Drinking window: 2025-2030
Alc. 13,00%
57 in stock
Description
Freeman Vineyards is a boutique family-owned winery in the Hilltops region of New South Wales, renowned for its Italian-inspired wines and pioneering spirit. Founded in 1999 by Dr. Brian Freeman, a former head of wine science at Charles Sturt University. Brian transitioned from academia to winemaking, bringing deep viticultural expertise to the Hilltops region. Situated in Prunevale, Hilltops, at 560 metres above sea level, the vineyard benefits from cool nights and sunny days during ripening, deep granite soils mixed with red silt, sand from central Australia and well-drained terrain, ideal for growing high-quality grapes.
Freeman Vineyards is Australia’s only producer of the northern Italian grape varieties Rondinella and Corvina, used in their flagship Secco. Other Italian varietals include Nebbiolo, Sangiovese, Aleatico, Prosecco, Fiano, Pinot Grigio, and an obscure varietal for Australia, Furmint. Their priority is well crafted wines with a focus on textural complexity, balance, and food-friendliness.
100% single vineyard estate grown Fiano grapes, this is the first commercial vintage of Freeman Fiano a white variety that originates from Campania, southern Italy and said to date back to Roman times. In the Hilltops this relatively new alternative variety produces an aromatic dry white wine. The 2022 season started with a cool spring and later the warm dry autumn nurtured fully ripe grapes, which were crushed then cold soaked for a few days before gentle pressing and fermentation in stainless steel, before brief ageing in a mix of new and old oak hogsheads prior to bottling.
Additional Information
| brand | Freeman Vineyards |
|---|---|
| size | 750ml |
| vintage | 2023 |
Review
THE REAL REVIEW
No #1 2022 Fiano in Australia – 93 / 100 Points
The Freemans reckon fiano is a grape ideally suited to their Hilltops region and from what I’ve tasted I’d have to agree.
The colour is very light yellow and there’s a spicy, tropical flower bouquet, hinting at frangipani, lychee, honey and dried mango. The wine has intensity and richness on the palate, good weight and length, a subtle suggestion of oak—but if so, it’s been sensitively used. Medium-full bodied, very long and pleasantly drying at the finish. An excellent food wine..
– Huon Hooke
THE REAL REVIEW
Freeman Fiano 2023 – 92 / 100 Points
Alluring mix of almonds, fennel, honeysuckle and seaspray leads into a textural palate… Composed and delicious…’
– Gabrielle Poy
