Linne Calodo

Winemaker Matt Trevisan swore he would never make a white wine. Contrary to that, the summer heat of Paso Robles begged him for a refreshing wine to consume during the day. Our white blend was born in 2002 and from there evolved to an interesting blend utilizing Estate grenache blanc and picpoul blanc.

Grenache forward every year, this wine looks to highlight a varietal that is an integral part of our blending house. Feminine in nature, each year this blend sees some of our best barrels of Grenache and is balanced by Syrah and Mourvèdre.

Linne Calodo has only produced the Martyr a few times in its history. This is a wine that celebrates one of the most important blending grapes we work with: Mourvèdre. While Grenache, Syrah, and Zinfandel bring fruit and acidity into our wines, Mourvèdre is the sultry, savory undertow. Essential to our balance, but once every few years too full and expressive to be martyred off.

The pale soft pink of the rising sun is captured in this first taste of the 2021 vintage, our Pale Flowers. This rosé of Grenache is crisp and bright from the moment it touches your tongue through the longer lingering finish.

The name is an homage to the first barrels of this blend. A zinfandel blend that did nothing but cause problems, demanding nights of extra attention complete with warm blankets and musical serenades. Referred to as the “Problem Child,” those two barrels turned themselves around and were the beginnings of one of our most celebrated wines.

A cellar-born blend that plays with whole cluster and varietal co-fermentations, the Perfectionist is vinified and aged in concrete with no oak influence on the wine.

In My Dreams celebrates with Paso fruit, what Spanish winemakers have known for generations- the perfect balance brought by combining bright Grenache with rich Tempranillo. When Matt planted the Tempranillo in 2007 it was only a dream that he might be able to make a blend featuring this varietal that was relatively unknown at the time. The newest blend in the Linne Calodo Cannon, In My Dreams has quickly become a club favorite.

The idea of making a single varietal wine is the Nemesis to the ethos of winemaker Matt Trevisan’s work. With a normally high percentage of Syrah each year, this brooding blend is the closest LC will ever come to producing a single varietal wine.

This wine is an experiment in vineyard terroir and soil intricacies. The zinfandel is sourced from northern facing slopes as well as lower lying areas where the soil is deeper and the temperatures are cooler. These factors produce less acid in the grape, allowing for this wine to gain an edge of spice and earth.

What was I thinking when I named this wine? To overthink things, paralysis through analysis, or a thorough study of the quest and its surroundings. Either way, the Overthinker represents my personal diary of making wines from the ground up. The pleasure of planting vines, patiently waiting for maturity and documenting my yearly fermentations in a vintage-by-vintage bottling of the Overthinker. There is no other wine in my library that says where I’ve been and where I’m going.

Our flagship wine embodies all that we strive for in blending. It shows not only balance in its flavor and body, but is in itself a balance between vineyards, varietals and aging vessels every year.

The old vine, dry-farmed Cherry Vineyard provides the bright fruit for this time-honored LC Blend. Since his days in college at Cal Poly San Luis Obispo, Matt has used fruit from this vineyard to craft a wine that is a love letter to a property that is an integral part of Linne Calodo’s history. Yielding between ½ to 1 ton per acre, these grapes pack the concentrated flavors of cherries, raspberries, blueberries, and the liqueurs that inherently follow. Named after Elmer and Mary Cherry and planted in 1977, this dry-farmed, head-trained zinfandel vineyard continuously produces an intense fruit that is blended with Syrah and other varietals for balance.