Fiano

The Fiano grape is among the best Italian white grape varieties and produce some of the best Italian white wines. The name Fiano seems to derive from the name of a population of Ligurian Apuan Alps overwhelmed by the Romans and migrated in the second century BC to Campania. In this exodus, it seems they have brought the grape variety, which later became Apiano, then Afiano and finally Fiano, with them.

Fiano is cultivated all over the south of Italy from Puglia to Sicily, but it is in Campania and precisely the province of Avellino, where it produces the best wines, the Fiano di Avellino DOCG. Fiano prefers volcanic soils, hence Campania, but also grows on clay and heavy soils.

Fiano's berry is white, medium, ellipsoidal with resistant, golden yellow skin with little bloom. The bunch is small to medium, dense, pyramidal with a wing rather developed and with an orbicular, medium-size, three-lobed or five-lobed leaf.

Fiano wines can have great complexity, aromatic finesse and aging potential, examples is Fiano di Avellino DOCG and many other Fiano wines mainly produced in Campania, but can also produce easy to drink white wines.