d'Arenberg The Dead Arm Shiraz McLaren Vale 2019 core-no-restrictions bottled before it finishes

bottled before it finishes

The style is unmistakably his: barrel-fermented but with restrained new oak

doesn't mean less skill but more

fanatical detail

d'Arenberg The Dead Arm Shiraz McLaren Vale 2019 core-no-restrictions bottled before it finishesThe 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