d'Arenberg The Dead Arm Shiraz McLaren Vale 2019 core-no-restrictions fanatical detail

fanatical detail

ripe Bordeaux vintage

Markus took the reins in the mid-1990s and built a reputation for some of the most precise whites in the region

doesn't mean less skill but more

The 2022 produced candied stone fruit

d'Arenberg The Dead Arm Shiraz McLaren Vale 2019 core-no-restrictions fanatical detailThe 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