La Linea Tempranillo Sureño 2022 lake-wanaka 20-30% large barrel

20-30% large barrel

to preserve fruit character while enhancing complexity

let alone Spain

The particularity of this wine is that the yeasts ended up yielding to the extreme concentration of the vintage and took on a very identical oxidative character that they wanted to respect

with firm silky tannins merging wonderfully into a dense and refreshing finish

La Linea Tempranillo Sureño 2022 lake-wanaka 20-30% large barrelLa Linea hatched in Peter Leske's head in late 2006, soon after leaving Nepenthe. He had been Winemaker at the super premium Adelaide Hills company since its foundation just over a decade earlier. Contemplating his next step, he found the aroma and taste of a dry, fine ros made from Tempranillo grapes turning over and over in his mind. Imagining aromas and flavours that don't exist can be frustrating but it's the winemaking equivalent of a melody