Little Helper Wines The King and I Fiano 2021
$22, 13.5% alcohol, screwcap, King Valley.
It doesn’t lack flavour and it doesn't lack length. This is a tasty fiano. It tastes of pears, chalk, apple sauce and honeysuckle, with whispers of crushed fennel hovering thereabouts. This is good buying and good drinking. It offers a bit of texture and a lot of flavour. 90 points.
Campbell Mattinson has been an independent journalist, wine critic and photographer for forty years. He founded The Winefront, is a former chief editor of the Halliday Wine Companion (and former editor of Halliday magazine), and is the only Australian to have won the Australian Wine Communicator of the Year Award more than once. He is 100% independent, and tastes between 5,000 and 10,000 wines each year, blind and in comparative brackets as often as is practicable.
Mattinson is also the founder of the Mattinson Photography business.
