La Spiaggia Sparkling Glera 2025

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 Notes

Fine and restrained yet infinitely inviting with Meyer lemon and sorbet, white nectarine, white peach, white freesia and citrus blossom. Subtle notes of cardamom, marzipan and mineral flint. The palate holds a delicate balance of fine chalky acidity and restrained sweetness, with a gentle but persistent mousse. 

Winemaking

Destemmed, crushed and gently air bag pressed. Cold settled for one week before racking to yield perfectly clear juice. A cool primary fermentation is carried out with W28 yeast in stainless steel tank, at temperatures down to 14˚C to enhance and retain the variety's delicate floral aromatics. Heat and cold stabilised, then undergoing crossflow 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 Home Block contains a complex mix of soils derived from its parent material, Ngaltinga Formation. The Glera resides on alluvial grey sandy clay soils with pockets of sand interbeds which support healthy canopy growth in spring to protects the fruit’s delicate thin skin from any sunburn in summer. East-west row orientation also softens the sun’s intensity and sea breezes from across the Gulf St Vincent cool the vineyard and help to retain freshness and vibrancy in the fruit

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