PAST ACCOLADES AND AWARDS:
Taste: 4.5/5 (2014)
This is light and shiny rosé wine from one of the country's best producers of tempranillos. There's an exotic element in the realms of orange blossom water and Turkish delight that doesn't veer to sweetness. It offers a fresh, medium-dry feel in the mouth, delicately spicy and totally gastronomic in its spread of textural and flavourful senses. Straight-out delicious.
Rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars 'Tempting Tempranillo'

James Halliday: 95 (2013)
Not too sweet, not too challenging, great texture, bright red fruits but with a spicy edge. Announces its quality the moment you put it in your mouth and yet it's highly drinkable/accessible. Confident length. Benchmark rose.

Tyson Stelzer says:
There will be much rejoicing over the 2012 vintage for many years to come, and here's some of the first proof that red grapes lapped up this idyllic season as eagerly as whites. This is a rose of impressive balance and stylistic restraint, achieving both refreshing delicacy and characterful, flavoursome style. Notes of savoury tomato, rosewater and fresh wild strawberries are supported by taut acidity and finely integrated texture, finishing enticingly bone dry. 92

FROM THE WINERY:

The La Linea rosé has always been a ‘serious’ rosé in that it’s bone dry, with varietal fragrance, and an edge of lingering tannin that leaves the palate refreshed. We have now moved to complement that original fruit source with a remarkably similar block at Birdwood. It also has the all-important perfume, and retention of acidity during ripening. We pick the fruit at “rosé ripeness”: earlier than for red wine, with lower sugar (leading to lower alcohol) and higher acidity. A few hours of contact between juice and skins ensures gentle extraction of colour and subtle tannin. After that, the winemaking is all about easing that fruit into the bottle.

Tasting note:
The 2014 La Linea rosé is as powerfully fragrant as ever: red apples, musk, fresh raspberries and the Turkish Delight which is a trade-mark aroma of Tempranillo from some special (and cool) sites. It’s slightly fuller in flavour than the 2013, while quite pale in colour. A textured yet vibrant mid-palate is backed up by that pleasantly drying tannin and fresh acidity. And of course it remains bone dry.