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

This article was written by Campbell Mattinson, former chief editor of the Halliday Wine Companion book, former editor of Halliday magazine, former editor of Australian Sommelier Magazine and founder of the highly respected The Winefront site.

Mattinson has been an independent wine critic and photo-journalist since 1987. He’s the only Australian to have won the Australian Wine Communicator of the Year Award more than once. He’s a past winner of a Louis Roederer International Wine Media Award; is the author of the award-winning book The Wine Hunter; and is the author of the best-selling novel We Were Not Men. He’s also a winner of a St Kilda Film Festival Award (as writer-director) and is a former winner of the prized Best Australian Sports Writing Award.

Mattinson, who is 100% independent, puts a score out of 100 on every wine that he reviews. But what he’d rather do, is tell you the wine’s story.

https://www.campbellmattinson.com
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