Vignerons Schmolzer & Brown Fiano 2025

Written By Campbell Mattinson
Bottle of Vignerons Schmolzer & Brown Fiano 2025.

Vignerons Schmolzer & Brown Fiano 2025
$40, 13% alcohol, screwcap, King Valley.

Vignerons Schmolzer & Brown sit comfortably in the realm of Australia’s best wine producers. This fiano, from a vineyard in the King Valley, saw a touch of skin contact and maturation in (neutral) acacia barrels.

This is a superb white wine. This should be bought in volume and appreciated at length. It’s savoury, grippy, intense where it needs to be a captivating at all times. It tastes of nashi pears, hay, tonic water, general umami characters and yellow stonefruit, with twists of assorted herbs, spices and salts swirling throughout as well. Yowser. This is a statement on quality if ever there was one. 95 points.

Campbell Mattinson

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.

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