La Spiaggia Sparkling Glera 2023

Story

‘The Beach’. Grown 3 kilometres from South Australia’s pristine coastline, La Spiaggia is inspired by Italy’s picturesque beaches and glistening, clear waters.

Tasting note

Immediately fruitful with yellow peach, sweet apple and citrus tones, hints of green olive and vanilla. A soft and pillowy mousse with creamy texture develops, balanced by subtle chalky minerality and lacey, fresh acidity. The wine shows baked apple, grapefruit, and white nectarine. Finishing crisp with lingering savoury undertones.

Winemaking

Destemmed and crushed before gentle air bag pressing. Cold settled for more than one week to ensure complete settling and racked clean. Cool primary fermentation in stainless steel tank at temperatures down to 14˚C with W28 Yeast to enhance the delicate floral aromatics. Heat and cold stabilised, the undergoing fine filtration at the winery before secondary fermentation, final dosage and sterile filtration at bottling.

Vineyard

Lopresti Home Block Vineyard – Flour Mill Road, Whites Valley, McLaren Vale.

McLaren Vale’s first Glera plantings. The Glera is grown on the Lopresti Home Block, less than 2 kilometers from the coastal town of Aldinga and only 4 kilometres from the beach itself. Ngaltinga Formation derived alluvial grey sandy clay soils with pockets of sand interbeds support healthy canopy growth which protects the fruit’s delicate thin skin from any sunburn. Cooling sea breezes which run across the Gulf of St Vincent cool the vineyard and help to retain freshness and vibrancy.

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