UNTI 2024 Fiano Dry Creek Valley

750ml bottle

13.2% ABV

Fresh & full, with a rich, pretty nose of pear, stone fruit, and beeswax. Opulently textured palate of ripe pear and stone fruits with minerality and acidity lending precision, structure, and energy.

100% Fiano

HARVESTED: Sept. 11, 2024 
BRIX AVG: 21.7
ACIDITY: 5.7 g/L
PH : 3.55
AGING: Stainless steel & concrete tanks
BOTTLED: 4/21/25
CASES: 300

Richly textured wine does not have to be fat and oaky. It also doesn’t have to be messed up with oxidized and bitter flavors from skin contact. It can just be compellingly fresh and full-bodied, which is exactly how I would describe our 2024 Fiano.

Fiano is consistently heralded as one of Italy’s best wines, as evidenced by the fact that it is one of the few white wines given a DOCG classification. Fiano has very distinct pear, honey, and hazelnut aromas and flavors. Its thick skins add a dimension of weight, but the acidity keeps it fresh and lively. This is especially true in Dry Creek Valley, where we experience cooler evening temperatures than they do in Campania.

Jason and our vineyard crew have really honed in on when to harvest our Fiano, which was on September 11, 2024. The vintage features ripe and classic Fiano characteristics, while the acidity is still solid. Jason’s winemaking approach is like all of our whites, fermented and aged in stainless steel or concrete with no malolactic fermentation. Fiano is one of my favorite white wines, and it has clearly found a home in California. - MU

VARIETAL & VINEYARD: Our 2024 Fiano comes from two small vineyard blocks, planted in 2011 and 2018. Fiano is the most noble grape from the town of Avellino in Italy’s Campania region. We planted Fiano thinking it would respond well to Mediterranean climate here in Dry Creek Valley, and we were right. The vines produce small-berried clusters that deliver classic flavor and texture with great natural acidity.

VINTAGE/HARVEST: 2024 started out just as we like it, with a cold wet winter that gave our soils a long and deep soaking which would no doubt benefit us later during the warmer summer and fall months. Winter gave way to a cooler, wet spring that seamlessly became more moderate just in time for the critical time of bloom, which ultimately gave us an even set and average yielding vintage. Things really warmed up in July, we had multiple 100+ days, but luckily the ample soil moisture from the winter and spring, combined with our deeprooted 20-30 year old vines, afforded us robust and healthy canopies that gave the fruit plenty of shade and protection.

WINEMAKING: The grapes are de-stemmed, pressed, and sent to a tank where the juice is allowed to settle for 24 hours prior to fermentation. We ferment Fiano in concrete tanks at temperatures below 70 degrees to retain bright aromas. The wine is then aged in concrete as well, which offers some of the oxidative benefits of oak without imparting wood flavor. This seems to really be accentuating this wine’s minerality and enhancing its opulent texture. We prevented this wine from going through malolactic fermentation, thereby preserving its’ acidity.

STYLE/DESCRIPTION: Fiano is, in my opinion, the most interesting and distinctive white wine in Southern Italy. This vintage of Fiano features a rich and pretty nose of pear, stone fruit and beeswax. It has an opulently textured palate of ripe pear and stone fruits on a well-integrated framework of minerality and acidity that gives this Fiano precision, structure and verve. Fiano is one of my favorite white wines, and has clearly found a home in California. - MU