  In this paper we argue that the mechanism of unwinding inflation is naturally
present in warped compactifications of type IIB string theory with local
throats. The unwinding of flux is caused by its annihilation against branes.
The resulting inflaton potential is linear with periodic modulations. We
initiate an analysis of the inflationary dynamics and cosmological observables,
which are highly constrained by moduli stabilization. For the simplified model
of single-K\"ahler Calabi-Yau spaces we find that many, though not all of the
consistency constraints can be satisfied. Particularly, in this simple model
geometric constraints are in tension with obtaining the observed amplitude of
the scalar power spectrum. However, we do find 60 efolds of inflation with a
trans-Planckian field excursion which offers the hope that slightly more
complicated models can lead to a fully consistent explicit construction of
large field inflation of this kind.
