d'Arenberg The Dead Arm Shiraz McLaren Vale 2019 CS20231026 Starting with the 2013 base

Starting with the 2013 base (commercialized in early 2022)

Kabinett done right: lightly sweet

now under the Roederer family's wing

subtle floral undertones

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 Starting with the 2013 baseThe 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