Picariello Fiano di Avellino 2023

90 points John Gilman (View From the Cellar): "The 2023 Fiano di Avellino from Ciro Picariello is a fine young wine. The bouquet is bright and youthfully complex, offering up scents of pear, green olive, dried flowers, wild fennel and a lovely foundation of white soil tones. On the palate the wine is vibrant, full-bodied, focused and complex, with a good core of fruit, lovely soil undertow, sound acids and a long, well balanced and classy finish. Good juice. 2024-2040. (Jul/Aug 2024)"

Importer notes: "Fiano di Avellino is one of Italy's best white wines, made from the Fiano variety near the town of Avellino in the region of Campania. When young, Picariello's Fianos are lively, minerally and bracing, redolent of apple, white peach and hazelnut, with a strong flinty character (part of his vineyards are in volcanic soil). On the palate there is bright, green-apple acidity, and great complexity. Pair with all kinds of seafood dishes, or just roast chicken. I am certainly drinking the new release with food now, but you would not be making a mistake if you put a few bottles of the Avellino in the cellar. Fiano is one of Italy’s most age-worthy white wines, and this will go ten years very easily."