"Lo Stesso Fiano from Jasper Hill-winemaker Emily Laughton and Georgia Roberts won last year's Best New Style category on Jeni Port's wrap up of the year's wines for The Age. It has a richness that will see it pair well with creamy pasta and other Italian-inspired seafood dishes. Its uber-cool label says this is "Same, Same, but different," and indeed it is. It takes Fiano's fresh flavours of stone fruit and citrus, and weds them in a serious, bees-waxy palate. An absolutely delicious Australian take on Northern Italy's favourite white wine variety."
Wine House
Winemakers Georgia Roberts (wine rep by day) and Emily McNally (of Occam's Razor and Jasper Hill) have collaborated for their second vintage, making fiano with fruit sourced from a well-known Heathcote vineyard, and it's a beauty. This smells of creamed honey, stone fruit and ginger spice with Mediterranean herbs. While it's quite a luscious full-bodied white, it's not overripe or heavy as there's fine acidity driving it. The palate is fantastic: creamy, slick, with loads of texture, incredibly moreish, with just the right savoury appeal.
Jane Faulkner, 13th July 2013.
"Lo Stesso 2011 Heathcote fiano, made by Emily Laughton and friend Georgia Roberts, brings an edginess that has made it a hit with sommeliers. Little wonder. Lo Stesso offers a less fruit-first, broader rustic look at the Italian varietal, with strong herbal influences. Wow."
Jeni Port (on the 2011 release)
Country:
Australia
Region:
VIC- Heathcote
Variety:
Wine White - Other
Size:
750mL
