Hither & Yon Fiano 2025
$33, 12.5% alcohol, screwcap, McLaren Vale.
This is a fresh and fruity white wine, for starters, which makes it easy to like. But it’s also a white wine with a slip of satin to its texture, and with subtle hits of grapefruit rind, wax and brine, which give it a bit of extra, and elevate its quality. It’s very good. It’s tasty, it’s crisp, it’s fruity and it’s more. 92 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.
