Linnaea Vineyards Electric Magnolia Arinto 2023 (6 Bottles) Heathcote

by Fine Wine Cellars

$204.00 GST Included

AUSTRALIA WIDE SHIPPING INCLUDED

This year, Grenache Blanc joins its Iberian cousin, Arinto, in the Electric Magnolia blend. Two clones of each variety are grown in the Whistling Eagle vineyard, which Dan has been managing for nigh-on 10 years now.

The mostly dry-grown vines climb above native cover crops in ancient soils derived from a 525-million-year-old basaltic shelf. The fruit was picked by hand and chilled before being destemmed and pressed to steel tanks for a cool, slow fermentation.

The lees were stirred throughout the three-month maturation, and the wine was bottled unfined and unfiltered.

Linnaea notes: With aromatics framing luscious pear supporting endless turns of lemon and lime, and a tangy palate of some lengthy deliciousness, we have nicknamed her ‘Electric Margarita’.

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About Linnaea Vineyards

Linnaea, led by Daniel Fischl and Michelle Edwards, is becoming a flag-flier for sustainable vineyard practice, across every vineyard they touch globally. The wines are made with a meticulous, reductive approach, and a blend of tradition and thoughtful intuition. They produce wines from their home base in Heathcote, as well as a selection from Italy.

The Winemakers
Michelle Edwards grew up in Washington state and moved to Melbourne in 2010. After completing university degrees in Anthropology, Oenology and Viticulture, she made wines in Napa and Sonoma Valley, Washington State, Australia and Italy. She lives with her husband (Dan), three children and dogs above her urban winery and enjoys all things fermented, dancing, parenting (sometimes), native Australian bees, indigenous Australian plants and foods, and tardigrades.

Dan Fischl is an agricultural scientist and technical vineyard specialist working globally in a few fancy and forward-thinking vineyards in countries as diverse as Australia, the USA, Israel, Mexico, China & Italy. PhD-trained in all things plant biochemistry and way-too-specifically the genomics of ripening in grapevines, his real passion is biological systems and restoring ecological balance to vineyard lands. Dan loves to chase after his three kids, fishing, cooking, Queen (the band, not the actual queen) and innovating algorithms for water conservation in vineyards.

Fine Wine Cellars

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