d'Arenberg The Laughing Magpie Shiraz Viognier McLaren Vale 2019 CS20230828 Latin for ‘one hundred herbs’

Latin for ‘one hundred herbs’

married to a coastal California freshness and lift

It's the kind of beer that makes you slow down

savory complexity that only patient cellaring delivers

d'Arenberg The Laughing Magpie Shiraz Viognier McLaren Vale 2019 CS20230828 Latin for ‘one hundred herbs’The Laughing Magpie takes the classic Northern Rhone trick of co fermenting Shiraz with a splash of Viognier, a nod to Cote Rotie, and applies it to McLaren Vale fruit. It's mostly Shiraz (around 94%) with the Viognier lifting the aromatics and adding silk. d'Arenberg is a fourth generation South Australian estate run by the inventive Chester Osborn, who favors old vines and traditional basket pressing. The 2019 is darkly perfumed and savory, with