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Bondar Fiano 2025
$30.00
Mainly from Ben Lacey’s Branson Road vineyard in Tatachilla, supplemented with fruit from the Minchella family, also in Tatachilla. Predominant steel ferment, with some older oak and amphora, then blended and raised in steel for four months. The ’24 was the best Bondar fiano I have seen, and this sits squarely beside it. Golden apple and corella pear, sea spray and air-dried linen, lemon balm, orchard blossom – so lively and energetic for a warm and dry year. Again, texture, pithy detail and vigorous but supremely harmonious acid tension wrap up the story. Great drinking here. 95 points – Marcus Ellis, Halliday Wine Companion
Producer Profile
Family-owned and operated, Bondar crafts superb wines from their preferred sites across McLaren Vale and the Adelaide Hills. At the heart of the estate is the Rayner Vineyard, where vine plantings date back to the 1950s, predominantly Shiraz and Grenache.
These are, first and foremost, wines made for drinking – generous, inviting, and effortlessly enjoyable. But there’s real depth here too: fragrant, silky, and savoury, with a quiet complexity that keeps you coming back.
Bondar is that rare producer that nails it all – flavour, texture, and feel – in equal measure.
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