2021 Giornata Fiano, Paso Robles, California (750ml)   

From the winery: Clean and stony, our Fiano lends itself to a simple stainless-steel fermentation and maturation in the cellar. The 2019 was sourced from a single vineyard in northwest Paso Robles that produce intensely flavorful fruit with plenty of lively acidity.

Destemmed and crushed in the early a.m., the grapes are left to soak on its skins for a few hours before a delicate basket pressing. It then proceeds untouched through alcoholic and partial malolactic fermentation, then filtered and bottled in mid February. Tasting notes Along with its red Campanian cousin Aglianico, Fiano is entirely suited to the southern Italian-like warm and dry climate of Paso Robles. Lively aromas of stonefruit and marzipan. The structured palate shows flavors of honey, lemon, wet rocks, little herbaceous green-ness on the finish.