Vinosia's single-site Fiano from San Potito Ultra, grown at around 500 metres on clay threaded with volcanic tuff. Steel-raised, dry and salty, it layers Williams pear, apricot and toasted almond over a stony spine. About £17 in the UK.
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Where to buy Fiano di Avellino DOCG 'Le Grade'
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Tasting Le Grade: Vinosia's hillside Fiano
Williams pear, candied apricot and toasted almond from whole-cluster-pressed Fiano grown at San Potito Ultra. Stone, honey and salt are the notes most drinkers pick out.
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- 10 July 2026
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- Drinker consensus · confidence Medium
- Typical of Fiano
Williams pear, candied apricot and lemongrass lead, folded into toasted almond and acacia honey. Air brings wild flowers, chamomile and a light smoky edge, the mark of Fiano grown high in the Avellino hills.
Dry and medium-bodied at 13.5%, smooth in texture yet driven by citrus freshness. The salty, stony spine comes straight off the site: Le Grade's clay at San Potito Ultra carries volcanic and tuff material at roughly 500 metres. Three months in steel on its fine spent yeast keep the fruit taut rather than creamy.
Long and savoury, closing on wet stone and a bitter-almond echo. Stone, honey and salt are the notes most drinkers pick out.
Vinosia's estate Fiano rather than a riserva, from the family that helped build Feudi di San Gregorio. A well-liked wine, with the 2022 the best-liked recent year. Drink the 2025 from release to about 2030, as pear and apricot turn towards honey and chamomile.
Buying the 2025 Le Grade in the UK
Eurowines sells the 2025 at £17.82 a bottle in six-bottle cases (£106.92), under natural cork at 13.5% ABV. Svinando UK carries the same release at £16.90.
How Le Grade scores as an Italian wine pick
Six dimensions scored for this bottle. A salty, unoaked DOCG white at £17.82 lands as a food-first buy with real short-term cellar interest rather than a trophy.
Citrus acidity, a salty stony streak and a smooth mid-weight palate span raw fish to roast chicken; sushi, soft cheeses and white meats are its natural matches.
A classic, aromatic expression of an indigenous Campanian grape at 13.5% with no oak. The salty register is the only step beyond its friendly pear and honey fruit.
UK pricing of £16.90 to £17.82 sits mid-band for single-site Fiano di Avellino DOCG. Feudi's single-vineyard bottlings run £16.90 to £23, and this is a well-liked wine.
Ready on release, unoaked and food-flexible, though £17.82 sits at the top of everyday territory for a midweek white.
DOCG status, a named single site and the Feudi di San Gregorio family story add polish. At £17.82 this is a smart dinner white rather than a trophy bottle.
Steel-only with about three months on its spent yeast and no DOCG ageing mandate. Cautious readings give it 3 to 4 years and the estate arc stretches to 8 as honey and chamomile develop.
Scoring is rule-based and deterministic. The model and weightings are documented in our Wine Fit Score methodology.
Fiano di Avellino in five fields
A compact view of what the Fiano di Avellino denomination actually requires, and how this bottle sits inside it. Pulled from the official Italian disciplinare.
Le Grade vintages: 2025 on sale, 2022 the peak
The 2025 was hand-picked in the second ten days of October and rested about three months in steel on its fine spent yeast. Among recent vintages, drinkers like the 2022 best, with the 2023 and 2024 close behind.
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- £16.50
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Drink-now / hold guidance reflects general style cues for this wine, not a forecast for a specific bottle. Where vintage-level editorial notes exist, they appear above.
Perfect Pairings
Dishes that go with this wine
What to eat with a saline Fiano like Le Grade
Sushi, soft cheeses, white meats and shellfish are its natural matches. The matches below follow the wine's three levers: citrus acidity, tuff saltiness and the almond-and-honey bouquet.
Raw fish, sushi and crudo
Citrus-fresh acidity and the salty finish of tuff-grown Fiano do what soy and lemon ask of a white: cleanse and season at once. Sushi and a lime-marinated yellowtail tartare are the obvious matches.
Try with: Sashimi · Nigiri Sushi · Crab · More pairings →
Fried seafood and batter
Whole-cluster pressing keeps Le Grade's acid line firm, and 13.5% gives it enough body for frying oil. The citrus cut scrubs batter fat while the salty, stony streak seasons like a squeeze of lemon.
Try with: Prawn Tempura · Fish and Chips · Gnocco fritto
Fresh mozzarella and Irpinia cheeses
Acacia honey and toasted almond in the bouquet bridge into milky, lactic sweetness. Soft cheeses are a natural match, and Caciocavallo podolico, Irpinia's benchmark cow's-milk cheese, is the local one.
Try with: Insalata Caprese · buffalo mozzarella · smoked scamorza · More pairings →
Roast chicken and white meats
Medium body, a smooth yeast-fed texture and a warm 13.5% frame let this Fiano sit beside roast birds without thinning out. Its freshness lifts the fat in crisp skin, and roasted white meats are a classic match for it.
Try with: Roast chicken · lemon-roast poussin · grilled courgettes · More pairings →
Shellfish pasta and saline plates
Stone, honey and salt lead in this Fiano, and that salty vein meets shellfish brine head on. Sweet crab and clam juices taste sweeter against Fiano grown on volcanic-flecked clay.
Try with: Fregula ai frutti di mare · Squid ink risotto · Crab · More pairings →
Hot chilli and heavy sweet-sour sauces
Chilli heat turns 13.5% alcohol into burn and flattens Le Grade's almond and acacia-honey aromatics, while thick sweet-sour glazes swamp the dry, salty finish. Pour an off-dry aromatic white with these and keep the Fiano for the raw bar.
Skip with: chicken madras · Szechuan chicken · sweet and sour dipping sauces · Pairing guide →
Keeping Le Grade: the three-to-eight-year arc
Not a riserva. Cautious readings give it 3 to 4 years of storage, and the estate profile stretches the arc to eight. By then pear and apricot fold into honey, chamomile and a faint hydrocarbon note.
Pour it straight from the bottle.
Aim for the cooler end on a warm day; warmer end opens up more aromatics.
Steel-only with about three months on its spent yeast and no DOCG ageing mandate. Cautious readings give it 3 to 4 years and the estate arc stretches to 8 as honey and chamomile develop.
£16.50 for a 75cl bottle of the 2025, at Xtrawine, is the best price we track, and we have no signal of further discounting.
Sources behind this Le Grade page
Read directly from each retailer’s public product page once a day. Last refresh: 8 Oct 2026, 03:26 BST. We do not hold stock and we do not accept payment for placement.
Confidence · HighDrawn from what drinkers consistently report on Vivino and Wine-Searcher, summarised in our own words. A crowd read across many tasters, not a single critic.
Confidence · MediumFrom the official Italian disciplinare for this denomination, cross-checked against the Ministry of Agriculture register.
Confidence · HighOur reading of the price, drawn from the disciplinare, public UK duty rates, and typical landed-cost benchmarks. Not a quote from the producer or a retailer.
Confidence · MediumStyle guidance for this kind of wine at this price point. Treat it as advice, not a forecast for the bottle in your hand.
Confidence · MediumLe Grade's wine map: Fiano, Avellino, Vinosia
Common Questions
Expect Williams pear, candied apricot and lemongrass over toasted almond and acacia honey. The palate is dry and smooth, with the salty, stony spine of Fiano grown on the tuff-rich clays at San Potito Ultra. That stony note is what drinkers mention most.
From Vinosia's Le Grade site in the hills of San Potito Ultra, one of the 26 Avellino-province municipalities written into the Fiano di Avellino DOCG zone. The cane-pruned vines sit at around 500 metres on clay flecked with volcanic material, planted at about 5,000 vines per hectare. The wine is bottled at origin at the family cellar in Paternopoli.
No. The 2025 is pressed in whole clusters, settled cold and kept about three months in stainless steel on its fine spent yeast. There is no barrel influence; freshness and saltiness lead instead of oak.
Drink it from release over three to five years. Cautious readings give it 3 to 4 years of storage potential; the estate profile stretches the arc to eight, when honey and chamomile notes emerge. The 2025 should show well through 2030.
The 2025 vintage. Eurowines sells it at £106.92 for a six-bottle case, which is £17.82 a bottle including VAT, sealed under natural cork at 13.5% ABV. Svinando UK carries the same release at £16.90.
Raw and delicate seafood first: sushi, soft cheeses and white meats, and shellfish above all. Its acidity and salty finish also suit fregula with seafood, mozzarella-based antipasti and simple roast chicken.
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