d'Arenberg The Dead Arm Shiraz McLaren Vale 2019 OLDRIOJA peppery palate

peppery palate

but already remarkably approachable

60% Pinot Noir and 40% Chardonnay

and red fruit with a smooth

d'Arenberg The Dead Arm Shiraz McLaren Vale 2019 OLDRIOJA peppery palateThe Dead Arm is d'Arenberg's flagship Shiraz, named for a vine disease (eutypa lata) that withers half the vine and concentrates the fruit on what survives. This is McLaren Vale at full intensity, from a fourth generation South Australian estate run by the gleefully eccentric Chester Osborn. The wine is made from ancient, low yielding vines and basket pressed in the old way for a powerful, deeply structured Shiraz. The 2019 is dense and built to age