d'Arenberg The Dead Arm Shiraz McLaren Vale 2019 NO20230809 It's cloudy

It's cloudy

the cellar work is patient

from a vineyard you can find on a map

this is a masterclass in how fermentation science and unconventional grains can push bourbon in new directions

d'Arenberg The Dead Arm Shiraz McLaren Vale 2019 NO20230809 It's cloudyThe 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