2025 Oliver's Taranga Small Batch Fiano

95 pts
A wildly expressive McLaren Vale Fiano that blends texture, bright citrus and savoury depth, offering personality and charm at every sip.

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Fiano might be an underdog in Aussie whites, but hit the right producer and it totally shines. Oliver’s Taranga have been growing the grape since the early 2000s, and their winemaker Corrina Wright is affectionately known as the “Queen of Fiano” - she clearly knows what to do with it.

The 2025 version is a charming mix of texture, citrus zip and savoury flair. One moment it’s all pine nuts and cashew cream, the next you’re tasting kaffir lime, fresh basil and punchy tropical fruit. The palate is creamy yet vivid, like golden delicious apple and juicy peach rolled in preserved lemon zest, with a finish that keeps going - fresh, gingery and full of life.

It’s a wine made to be devoured with spicy food or just on its own with friends. It feels effortless, versatile, and an absolute joy in the glass from start to finish.

95 points
"It’s another excellent release... There’s intensity of fruit here, with a textural roundness preceding a pithily racy drive, suspending the flavours long."
- Marcus Ellis (Halliday Wine Companion)

95 points - "Sourced from five estate blocks, from six to 21 years old. Pressed mainly to steel, with about 15% in concrete eggs and 10% in second and third passage French oak; high solids with natural yeasts, 25% mlf, and no additions until sulphur at bottling. It’s another excellent release, with the warm and dry year highlighting what a great variety this is for the Vale. Golden apples, preserved lemon, grapefruit pith, sea spray, tonic, a hint of lemon curd and oyster shells. There’s intensity of fruit here, with a textural roundness preceding a pithily racy drive, suspending the flavours long." - Marcus Ellis (Halliday Wine Companion)

95 points - "This is the wine that helped start the stampede towards Fiano. It remains a solid benchmark, and no doubt will be celebrated on inaugural National Fiano Day on October 17, established by the maker and like-minded winemaking Fiano believers. I remember tasting the 2011 back in the day with its bitter almond notes and texture and being blown away with its individuality. It is still a feature of Fiano today. Stone fruits, nectarine, white peach, Asian pear aromas mingle with honeysuckle florals, almond and lemon curd. Textural, warm-hearted and cuddly with a gentle nuttiness, it brings additional savoury almond, lemongrass to taste together with bright lemon pastille. Fiano offers no angles, no attitude, it’s sunny and lively and seamless with tangy acidity puts on a star turn. And, boy, does it linger long." - Jeni Port (Wine Pilot)

Our winemaker Corrina Wright is known in the wine business as the Queen of Fiano for good reason! Prepare your palate for a textural journey with this Fiano. One minute it’s all pine nuts and cashew, the next it’s kaffir lime and fresh basil with a touch of the tropics. Drink with anything spicy, or just to spice up your life.

Price Bracket $30 or Less
Type White
Body Medium Bodied
Variety Fiano
Country Australia
Region McLaren Vale
Australian State SA
Feature Women in Wine
High Score
Reviewed By Halliday Wine Companion
Wine Pilot
Critic Score 95
Alcohol 12.5%
Size 750ml
Vintage 2025
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Oliver's Taranga

Five generations of the Oliver family have been farming land in McLaren Vale dating back to the 1840s.

There are now 100 hectares of land under vine on the Taranaga property - Taranga is a corruption of the aboriginal word Tarangk, meaning 'the middle' which was used by the Kaurna, a local aboriginal tribe.

Under the trailblazing guidance of winemaker Corrina Wright, there are now near 50 blocks of different varieties and clones. A McLaren Vale melting pot!

Winemaker Corrina Wright Oliver's Taranga

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