d'Arenberg The Dead Arm Shiraz McLaren Vale 2019 CS20231026 with dark red fruit

with dark red fruit

It combines five distinct whiskeys—including an 11-year bourbon

Starting with the 2013 base (commercialized in early 2022)

A red for Jura and Beaujolais fans who want to see what California can do in that register

d'Arenberg The Dead Arm Shiraz McLaren Vale 2019 CS20231026 with dark red fruitThe 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