Lino Ramble Sly Fox Fortified Arinto

Written By Campbell Mattinson
Mattinson review of Lino Ramble Sly Fox Fortified Arinto.

Lino Ramble Sly Fox Fortified Arinto
$40 500ml, 18.5% alcohol, screwcap, McLaren Vale South Australia.

The Arinto grape. This saw some time on (grape) skins, and saw some time in wood, and saw (obviously) some fortification with spirit. It’s an amber-orange in the glass, it tastes of orange oil and toffee apples, caramelised pears and citrus, with a gentle burnt character adding to the overall personality. It’s oddball and familiar at once; a good way to be. It tastes beautiful on ice. 91/100 and worth buying.

Campbell Mattinson

Campbell Mattinson has been an independent journalist, wine critic and photographer for forty years. He founded The Winefront, is a former chief editor of the Halliday Wine Companion (and former editor of Halliday magazine), and is the only Australian to have won the Australian Wine Communicator of the Year Award more than once. He is 100% independent, and tastes between 5,000 and 10,000 wines each year, blind and in comparative brackets as often as is practicable.

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