Pale in the glass like something delicious (and more expensive!) from the south of France, but instead made from Tempranillo, with an Australian twist! Delicately floral and spicy, with dried strawberry and pomegranate notes, backed up by plenty of zesty acidity.

La Linea is a collaboration between three highly experienced wine professionals: David LeMire, Peter Leske, and Jason Quin. Their first vintage was in 2007, after winemaker Peter Leske could not get the imagined aroma and taste of a pale, dry, fine Tempranillo rosé out of his mind. He knew of no such wine being made in Australia, but he also knew an Adelaide Hills vineyard which produced fruit perfect for the wine… and La Linea was born. Back then it was a ‘newbie’ grape, of course… but Tempranillo is no longer really an emerging grape in Australia. Just like in its home in Spain, we know it well enough now, and it happily makes a diverse range of styles, from crisp rosés produced for summer drinking, to robust, long-living reds. So as well as one of the countries most satisfying rosés, the team has also made dry red Tempranillo for over a decade, and always in fundamentally the same style: medium-bodied, with the variety’s typical fleshy mid-palate, drying tannins, and consciously lower alcohol than many contemporary Aussie reds. All their wines are well balanced and inherently juicy and savoury. Great stuff. Pale in the glass like something delicious (and more expensive!) from the south of France, but instead made from Tempranillo, with an Australian twist! Delicately floral and spicy, with dried strawberry and pomegranate notes, backed up by plenty of zesty acidity.