Feudi di San Gregorio Fiano di Avellino 2025
£17.95
The wine
Delicate yet fresh floral notes of chamomile are layered with peach and candied orange aromas. The soft palate is enveloped with a lovely freshness, running through to a vibrant spicy and mineral finish. One of the great whites of southern Italy.
Fiano di Avellino is one of southern Italy's great whites, grown in the hills of Irpinia at up to 600 metres. Fiano is a low-yielding, thick-skinned variety with an unusual waxy, hazelnut character that develops with age, and unlike most Italian whites it genuinely improves for five to ten years in bottle.
The producer
Feudi di San Gregorio
View all Feudi di San Gregorio winesFeudi di San Gregorio began in the mid-1980s in Irpinia, the mountainous inland province east of Naples, with a clear aim: to safeguard local tradition and unlock the potential of Campania's own grapes rather than plant international ones.
Those grapes are among the oldest in Italy. Greco and Aglianico were brought by Greek settlers before the Roman period, Fiano was praised in classical texts, and all three had been reduced to obscurity by the twentieth century. Irpinia is the making of them: inland, mountainous and considerably cooler than the coast, with volcanic soils and altitudes up to 700 metres that give acidity and aromatic definition rarely found this far south.
In under thirty years the estate built a reputation for genuinely world-class wine and did much to change how southern Italy was regarded. Taurasi, its Aglianico appellation, is often called the Barolo of the south, and with reason: the grape ripens as late as November and gives tannin and acidity enough to demand years in bottle. Feudi earned B Corporation certification in 2021.
