Landsdale Vineyard | Mount Barker

Swinney Mojo Rising Vineyard | Frankland

Each parcel of fruit was treated differently. The Lansdale portion was treated as a standard aromatic white – clarified and fermented cool in stainless steel, this was our “fruity” component. The riper Mojo portion was cold soaked for two days pre-pressing and then pressed directly to 3rd use French oak puncheons, where it underwent 100% barrel fermentation on full solids. This was our “textural, funky” component. After 3 months in oak, the two parcels were blended, lightly fined and bottled.

The wine displays lifted aromatics of nashi pear and honeydew melon, with some slight nutty complexity shining through. It is the palate, however, where this wine really shines with a mouth filling textural richness largely coming from the Frankland portion of the wine.

Nonna Diana is named after Callum’s grandmother and honours her Tuscan background (from Lucca). The words on the back “lots of love and a touch of spice” emulates not only her amazing cooking skills that get passed through the generations but also embodies her loving (and sometimes cheeky) nature.