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Barmera, Riverland, Australia
Unico Zelo River Sand Fiano 2024
Unico Zelo
Unico Zelo's daily-drinker Fiano, waxy and tropical from Riverland's iron-sand soils.
$35.00
750ml12% alc.6 for $175
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About
Sourced from the organic Bassham Vineyards in Barmera, on iron-rich sand over limestone, this Fiano is built for warm-weather drinking. Expect frangipani and pineapple on the nose, golden kiwi and apple, with an almond-kernel character running into apricot and nectarine pip, wrapped in a luscious, honeyed, waxy texture that's a signature of Unico Zelo's Fiano range. Bright acidity keeps it refreshing rather than heavy — the winery calls it their own team's daily drinker rather than an occasion wine.
Bassham sits at Barmera, effectively at sea level, on ground the importer describes as close to desert. The vineyard is certified organic, on Ngawait Country.
In the winery the fruit is destemmed and left on skins overnight before pressing. The juice ferments in stainless steel, is racked off the gross lees, then rests nine months on fine lees in tank. It spends another nine months in bottle before release. Brendan Carter calls the 2024 broad and voluptuous without being heady or intense, with moderate ripeness and gentler acidity than its siblings. It is the most approachable of the single-region Fianos, and it is vegan friendly at 12 percent.
Drink it cold in the sun, with food or without, as the winery puts it. It does not need a menu.
Producer note
River Sand is one of six to eight single-vineyard Fianos Unico Zelo bottles each year under the Riverland GI. It's a distinct wine from their flagship Jade & Jasper Fiano, which sources mainly from the Ricca Terra vineyards elsewhere in the Riverland — River Sand comes specifically from the organic Bassham Vineyards in Barmera.
Structure
Grape
Picked on Stef's structure profile.
