🍇 Fiano

Fiano is a white wine grape variety of Italy. VIVC lists it as Vitis vinifera subsp. sativa with Italy as the country of origin, wine use and hermaphrodite flowers; parentage, breeder and year of origin are not recorded. VIVC gives 12 synonyms, among them Fiano di Avellino, Latino Bianco, Latina Bianca, Minutolo and Apiana, and records chlorotype D. The variety is registered in the European Catalogue, and ten collections hold it.

Fiano gives its name to Fiano di Avellino DOCG, a white wine of the province of Avellino. The production rules published in Gazzetta Ufficiale no. 264 of 24 October 2020 reserve the name to two types, Fiano di Avellino and Fiano di Avellino Riserva. The wines must come from the Fiano variety at a minimum of 85 percent; Greco, Coda di Volpe and Trebbiano Toscano may add up to 15 percent together. The production zone covers the whole territory of 26 municipalities of the province of Avellino, among them Avellino, Lapio and Atripalda, and only hillside vineyards with good exposure are suitable. The maximum yield is ten tonnes of grapes per hectare, and the grapes must give a natural strength of at least 11.00 percent by volume. The Riserva must age for at least twelve months from 1 November of the harvest year.