Ep 514: The Grape Miniseries -- Fiano

Wine for Normal People

Alcohol, Lifestyle, Arts, Education, Food, Wine, Dining, Grapes

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🗓️ 27 March 2024

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

This week I explore one of my favorite grapes of all time, Fiano! The grape makes some of the most exquisite wines you could imagine -- whites with layered complexity, age-ability, and unadulterated deliciousness. I discuss all aspects of the grape:

The historical overview of the grape and how Mastroberardino saved it from obscurity (Check out my podcast with Piero Mastroberardino here)
A discussion of Fiano in the vineyard and how adaptable it is
Some thoughts about winemaking and its effect on the grape
The aromas and flavors of the grape
Where it grows:
Italy: Campania (65%), specifically Irpinia, and within that area the Fiano di Avellino DOCG, with sizable quantities in Sicily and Puglia as well. Listen to my show on my trip to Campania here...
New World places: Australia, Argentina, the US

I hope I convince you to try the grape if you haven't had it before. It is truly one of my "desert island wines" -- it's very hard not to love it!

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0:00.0	Welcome to Wine for Normal People, the Podcasts for People who like Wine for Normal People,
0:10.0	the podcast for people who like wine, but not the snobbery that goes with it.
0:13.2	I'm your host Elizabeth Schneider author of the Wine for Normal People Book and
0:19.3	certified wine dork. This podcast is sponsored by Wine Access. Do you know Wine Access has a
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0:49.9	slash normal today. Now let's get to the show. So I know that I have been very
0:55.6	Italian heavy lately we did the Dulceto podcast and I'm teaching the white wines of Italy class coming up, which if you haven't registered,
1:06.0	especially if you're in the UK or EU time zone, you should get on that because we only do a couple of classes that are going to work for your time zone a year and that is coming up.
1:16.5	But I was thinking about Fiano because, well there's a number of reasons, the White Wines
1:22.2	of Italy class will be
1:23.0	tasting it and also I've started to talk to my partners Heather and Bete at
1:28.5	Theresao about the patron Campagna trip next year and it has such great memories for me.
1:35.8	I had such a wonderful time when I went there and Fiano's home is really in Campagna. It's a wine that I adore on Patreon. We were talking about our
1:47.1	Desert Island wines and I said that Fiano is one of my Desert Island wines. It's hard with Riesling, Coatroti, maybe some
1:57.1	Brunello, it's tough. I don't know there's so many but anyway
2:01.8	Fiano is definitely up there and in terms of white it is right up there with Riesling
2:06.0	for me and that actually makes sense as you will see later it actually shares some
2:09.6	characteristics of Riesling. I am talking about patron trips. I am talking about classes which a lot
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