Ox Hardy Upper Tintara Vineyard Fiano 2024 x 12

Ox Hardy Upper Tintara Vineyard Fiano 2024 x 12BACKGROUND This Fiano comes from our Upper Tintara Vineyard in Blewitt Springs, which my great great grandfather bought in 1871. My father Bob and I planted these vines in 2011 after deciding that Fiano would be well suited to not only this particular location, but also to McLaren Vales warm, dry climate. WINEMAKING Picked in the early morning of March 2nd and transported to our winery. The grapes were pressed and the juice pumped into stainless steel

BACKGROUND 
“This Fiano comes from our Upper Tintara Vineyard in Blewitt Springs, which 
my great-great grandfather bought in 1871.  My father Bob and I planted these vines in 2011 after deciding that Fiano would be well suited to not only this particular location, but also to McLaren Vale’s warm, dry climate.”
 WINEMAKING 
Picked in the early morning of March 2nd and transported to our winery. 
The grapes were pressed and the juice pumped into stainless steel and old 
French oak. The juice was then cold settled before being inoculated with a 
cultured yeast and fermented at cool temperatures for just under a month. 
At sugar dryness the tank component had its yeast lees stirred weekly, 
whilst the oak component went through spontaneous malo-lactic and 
received fortnightly batonnage. Total maturation of 5 months prior to 
filtering and bottling.
 Winemaker
  CELLARING POTENTIAL
 TECHNICAL
 Andrew Hardy
 Blewitt Springs, McLaren Vale
 Fiano
 2024
 Light straw
 Enticing with notes of nashi pear, white
 flowers and citrus
 Fresh minerality is underscored by a textural and 
balanced palate evoking green apple and pear on 
a long and satisfying finish.
 Drink Now, 3-5 years
 Alc 11.5% - TA 7.6 - RS 0.35 - pH 3.04

'...yielding a textural sway, and a keenly judged one at that.'

93 Points

From vines planted on the family vineyard in '11, this was fermented in steel and older oak, with the barrel portion going through mlf; both parcels were lees stirred. Picked early, this is coolly aromatic, in a refined way, with cape gooseberry, nashi, celery seed, tomatillo, butter lettuce and green apple sorbet. That barrel component has fleshed out the mid-palate, yielding a textural sway, and a keenly judged one at that.

Halliday Wine Companion 2026, 03 Feb 2025