Spinifex Lola Semillon & Clairette Blend 2021 (6 Bottles), Barossa Valley

$160.00 GST Included

AUSTRALIA WIDE SHIPPING INCLUDED

Varietal/s: Semillon, Clairette, Ugni Blanc

Brilliant pale straw, delicately aromatic with ripe lemon, grapefruit, smoked almond, and fresh hay notes. Fresh and concentrated palate of ripe lemon rind and grapefruit, finishing with the feel of creamy milk and river stones.

All fruit was hand harvested and chilled overnight prior to crushing and spent 6 hours on skins before pressing. Juice was settled over night prior to fermentation with indigenous yeasts in a combination of stainless steel and seasoned French oak. The young wine rested on full lees for 8 months prior to bottling, with no malo-lactic fermentation occurring.

The 2020 growing season and vintage conditions can be surmised as dry and low yielding. Winter and spring rainfall was well below average and turbulent weather during the spring and early summer, particularly during the flowering period, further reduced the potential yield of the harvest. Weather over the harvest period was mild and very dry with yields being typically around 50% of what may be considered average.

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Spinifex Wines owners and operators, Peter Schell and Magali Gely, have had a home in the Barossa Valley for over twenty years and hold a strong commitment to and passion for the Barossa. They also have a strong French connection, both physically and philosophically.

Magali’s family, who up until recently were vignerons with a long lineage in Lunel, near Montpellier, still live in south France, and over the last ten years Peter has worked six French vintages, in Provence, the Languedoc, Bordeaux and Burgundy.
Spinifex Wines owners and operators, Peter Schell and Magali Gely, have had a home in the Barossa Valley for over twenty years and hold a strong commitment to and passion for the Barossa.
Wine making process at Spinifex Wines

Time spent in the south of France has fuelled their interest in making unique, hand crafted wines with personality, which are generous and honest expressions of the varieties and their provenance.

Spinifex Wines grapes are sourced from a group of dedicated growers in both the Barossa and Eden Valleys, taking advantage of the great diversity of the soils and meso-climates of the Barossa to create wines with balance, character, depth of flavour and Barossan generosity.

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