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d'Arenberg Stump Jump Grenache/Shiraz/Mourvedre 2006
A voluminous, sweet fruit, mulberry, raspberry, spicy and earthy nose leads through to the palate showing the same flavours as the aromas. A great round glycerol sweetness fills the mouth with a touch of fresh, ripe fruit tannins on the aftertaste.
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£7.58
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d'Arenberg Stump Jump Riesling/Sauvignon Blanc/Marsanne 2006
An unoaked blend of premium varietals which changes from vintage to vintage, but always conspires to create an excellent crisp dry, lively white, proudly named after an important South Australian invention - the stump jump plough. Many of McLaren Vale’s old vineyards were originally cleared using this invention.
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£6.85
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d'Arenberg Broken Fish Plate 2005
This "smashing" Sauvignon Blanc has just arrived in the country...
Very Limited Stocks
The nose shows initial lifted, herbaceous, gooseberry, blackcurrant leaf, freshly cut grass and passionfruit smells as well as a base of more subtle and elegant slightly perfumed lychee and lime aromas.
Predominantly made from fruit sourced from the cool climate Adelaide Hills, about 15% comes from the Pump Shed Block situated right in front of the winery. This wine is so-named as a result of the fishplates which sit in the bottom of the harvester and collect the falling grapes, which are invariably destroyed as the harvester moves through the steep, v-shaped gullies and sharp mid-row corners of the Pump Shed Block. (and you thought it had something to do with Greek traditions??)
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£9.99
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d'Arenberg The Laughing Magpie Shiraz/Viognier 2006
Upon release, the "Laughing Magpie" has a vivid, dark purple colour. The Viognier adds fragrant flower and perfume aromas, and flavours of nectarines, apricots, ginger and herbs, serving to enhance the very ripe flavour spectrum of the Shiraz, which primarily exhibits blackberry, blueberry and boysenberry. With a considerable portion of this wine being naturally fermented (no yeast added), the wine reveals exotic aromas of roast meat, salami, game, earth and lipstick. These characters prevail on the palate with a smooth glycerol impact following through to the mid-palate, with the exotic characters growing and combining with tannins and a long complex finish. Structurally, the 2003 "Laughing Magpie" is as full-bodied as the 2002 release with a more complex, rich mouth feel, ending with a beautifully balanced array of fine, rich tannins. The ageability of this wine, we think, is very long due to the massive fragrant fruit, the lively intense flavours and the abundance of white wine tannins in the late spectrum.
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£12.21
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d'Arenberg Bonsai Vine Grenache/Syrah/Mourvedre 2001
"displays a dark reddish-purple colour in its youth. Aromas attack with spice, plum, red and black berry fruits, liquorice and black cherries. The palate shows mulberry, black pepper and ripe plums before a strong, lingering dark cherry spice and gritty fruit tannin finish. The Grenache and Shiraz components will develop together, with olive, complex spice and fruitcake flavours coming through. The Mourvedre component adds dried herbs and an iodine character thay stays, along with chalky tannins. This wine will continue to age well for many years." Chester Osborn, Chief Winemaker
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£13.50
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d'Arenberg Derelict Vineyard Grenache 2003
"It is a black wine with a great purple hue. Intense, young purple fruits and flowers combine with meat, earth and fresh bitumen to yield an intense, extremely inviting aroma. The palate starts with a huge Wam! of flavour. Thick, ripe mulberries, blackberries and blueberries progress into a rich, gutsy, liquorish and bitumen palate, followed by masses of powerful, youthful, gritty fruit tannins, layered with tonnes of flowery, cranberry and dark fruit flavours, and a youhful acidity. This is a wine of intense concentration." Chester Osborn, Winemaker
RP 90 points
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£12.21
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d'Arenberg The Olive Grove Chardonnay 2004
Chester's Tasting Notes:
Given time to prove its longevity and most importantly not served over-chilled, d’Arenberg’s The Olive Grove McLaren Vale Chardonnay develops intense, complex honey, cashew, fig and soft toast aromas. Typically, butterscotch, light caramel and hints of fresh tobacco are evident too.
The fresh structured mid palate retains its texture but opens slowly into generous sweet banana butterscotch flavours with hints of smoky bacon and green olive tastes before finishing with a persistent developed stone-fruit and chalky texture.
A mature d’Arenberg Olive Grove Chardonnay produces a rich, rolling generous and complex finish balanced by long, clean, refreshing acidity as have more than a decade and a half of previous vintages.
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£8.27
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d'Arenberg The Last Ditch Viognier 2003
Chester's Tasting Notes:
In its youth d’Arenberg’s The Last Ditch Viognier has a brilliant mid straw colour with lifted nectarine, white peach and apricot dominated aromas, as well as enveloping rose, ginger and fruit blossoms.
These also dominate the young palate where thick and viscous fruit showing rose, nectarine and white peaches develop into an unctuous long lasting palate showing ginger and spices. A very complex wine, offering a huge spectrum of flavours.
After some bottle ageing d’Arenberg’s The Last Ditch Viognier should develop in colour to a richer bright gold.
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£9.24
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d'Arenberg The Laughing Magpie Shiraz/Viognier 2005 6x75cl
Currently Out Of Stock - More of the '04 is due in
Upon release, the "Laughing Magpie" has a vivid, dark purple colour. The Viognier adds fragrant flower and perfume aromas, and flavours of nectarines, apricots, ginger and herbs, serving to enhance the very ripe flavour spectrum of the Shiraz, which primarily exhibits blackberry, blueberry and boysenberry. With a considerable portion of this wine being naturally fermented (no yeast added), the wine reveals exotic aromas of roast meat, salami, game, earth and lipstick. These characters prevail on the palate with a smooth glycerol impact following through to the mid-palate, with the exotic characters growing and combining with tannins and a long complex finish. Structurally, the 2003 "Laughing Magpie" is as full-bodied as the 2002 release with a more complex, rich mouth feel, ending with a beautifully balanced array of fine, rich tannins. The ageability of this wine, we think, is very long due to the massive fragrant fruit, the lively intense flavours and the abundance of white wine tannins in the late spectrum.
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£68.76
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d'Arenberg The Money Spider Roussane 2005
In its youth, d’Arenberg’s ‘The Money Spider’ Roussanne has a brilliant mid-straw colour with lifted green spiced almond kernels, dried wheat, white peach, nectarine, honeysuckle, and honey notes. These characters are also found in the youthful palate with an element of citrus, lavender, honeysuckle and spice, ending with a green mineral finish. The palate is fine and dry showing excellent levels of ripeness and balanced with fresh acidity. After some bottle aging, d’Arenberg’s ‘The Money Spider’ Roussanne should develop in colour and become dominated by yellow peaches and tropical fruits and that varietal honey and spice trademark. In the mouth, an older ‘Money Spider’ Roussanne will maintain peach and honey but also be distinguished with a fine edge of acidity and a rolling, lengthy and penetrating finish for quite some considerable time.
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£9.24
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d'Arenberg Cadenzia 2005
Very limited production.
This wine is dominated by an amazing fragrance of red berries; spice, cherries and a developing mix of characters such as lavender, prunes, blueberries and dried herb as the wine opens up. It’s a medium to full bodied wine with a beautifully integrated palate with excellent depth and concentration of fruit with an almost silky tannin structure balanced by fine acidity. The thickness of the Shiraz in the palate and length of flavour beautifully balances the Grenache and Mourvèdre as it dominates with mulberry and dark spiced fruit and licorice characters while the Mourvedre characters of iodine and dried herb completes the lingering flavours on the finish. Upon release this wine is in total balance and showcases the wonderful attributes of d’Arenberg Grenache.
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£12.55
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d'Arenberg The Galvo Garage Cabernet/Merlot/Cabernet Franc 2004
This youthful wine shows deep, vibrant black red-purple colours. The nose shows a complex array of green flower-like florals, blackcurrant and cassis from the Cabernet, sweet dark fruits & compost from the Adelaide Hills Merlot and earthy floral violets and spice from the Petit Verdot with dried flowers, characteristic of Cabernet Franc. Overall a very big complex elegant wine. Very fruit orientated with a nicely controlled lush, long palate showing a wonderful combination of oak and lively red spiced floral flavours with mulberries, dark plums, cherries and violets. Very vibrant tannins give balance to the dry savoury finish.
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£12.21
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d'Arenberg The Hermit Crab Viognier/Marsanne 2005
Chester's Tasting Notes:
The Hermit Crab McLaren Vale Marsanne Viognier has a green, brilliant mid-straw colour and exhibits fresh and tropical fruit with a strong emphasis on stone fruits, pineapple, mango and honeysuckle.
The youthful palate is immediately luscious with those tropical fruit, honeysuckle and stone fruit flavours balanced by fresh grapefruit and light butter tastes, before a long persistent fruit finish. The wine shows vibrant freshness with enjoyable hints of hazelnut and slight mineral boney-ness, characteristic of Marsanne.
Given time to prove its longevity and most importantly not served over chilled, The Hermit Crab Marsanne Viognier we believe should develop intense, complex nuttiness with emphasis on cashews, as well as butterscotch characters.
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£8.40
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d'Arenberg Derelict Vineyard Grenache 2002
The explosively perfumed, rich, multidimensional 2002 The Derelict Vineyard Grenache displays a dense ruby, purple-tinged colour. This wine, which emerges from head-pruned vineyards, possesses classic kirsch liqueur notes intermixed with licorice, smoke, spice and earth. Medium to fullbodied, with a nicely layered midpalate, loads of fruit, good glycerin, and a succulent finish, this is a delicious Australian red to drink over the next 7-8 years. Robert Parker Jnr
RP 90 points
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£14.79
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d'Arenberg d'Arry's Original Grenache/Shiraz 2002
In it's youth, d'Arry's Original displays a bright, deep red colour. The nose invariably attacks with lifted spice, pure red and dark fruits such as cherry, plum and mulberry with a savoury earth and meat element with licorice, rosemary and fennel lift. The palate shows a wide array of sweet fruits including strawberry, cherry, mulberry and plum leading into tight licorice and spices that linger with nice, gritty fruit tannins complexed with slight meat, salami earth and undergrowth notes. Well cellared, it becomes soft, generous, full-flavoured, velvety, long and seamless in the bottle. While retaining great fruit character, earth and mint add to the characteristics already described. The impressive sweetness of this wine is retained while the gritty tannin finish of a young wine gives way to long swee spiced McLaren Vale characters with acidity still fresh and active.
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£9.56
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Dead Arm Shiraz 2004 37.5cl
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£15.86
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d'Arenberg The Twenty Eight Road Mourvedre 2002
Back in Stock!
"A deep bright crimson ruby colour with lifted, spicy clove, cranberry and ripening blackberry primary fruit smells, elements of mulberry, light blackcurrant, cinnamon and vanilla liquorice, as well as mint and flowers, especially violets which are also evident on the young palate. " Chester Osborn, Winemaker
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£13.70
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d'Arenberg Three Soils 2002 3x75cl
This limited edition pack showcases the influence of 'terrior' in a wine's construction.
3 bottles of Custodian Grenache "Sand on Clay", "Deep Sand" and "Loam"
Collectively they have won 9 medals
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£31.50
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Dead Arm Shiraz 2003 Magnums
Just Arrived!
‘One of this estate’s flagship wines, the 2003 The Dead Arm Shiraz appears to be better than the 2002. A deeper, richer, fuller-bodied offering that spent time in equal parts French and American oak, it possesses an opaque purple colour, great intensity, and a fabulously sweet nose of blackberries, cassis, asphalt, earth, and oak. Powerful, super-concentrated, and obviously fashioned from low yields and old vines, this is classic McLaren Vale old vine Shiraz that should age nicely for 15+ years.’ 95 points RP
The 2004 Vintage will be in Stelvin
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£58.69
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d'Arenberg Noble Riesling 2005 37.5cl
d'Arenberg Noble 2005
Just arrived - tatsing notes in production.
image shown is for the 2003 vintage.
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£11.60
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Dead Arm Shiraz 2004 Magnums
We are currently awaiting stock of the latest addition to the Dead Arm collection
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£65.74
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Dead Arm Shiraz 2003 - Currently Out of Stock
Currently out of Stock
‘One of this estate’s flagship wines, the 2003 The Dead Arm Shiraz appears to be better than the 2002. A deeper, richer, fuller-bodied offering that spent time in equal parts French and American oak, it possesses an opaque purple colour, great intensity, and a fabulously sweet nose of blackberries, cassis, asphalt, earth, and oak. Powerful, super-concentrated, and obviously fashioned from low yields and old vines, this is classic McLaren Vale old vine Shiraz that should age nicely for 15+ years.’ 95 points RP
The 2004 Vintage will be in Stelvin
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£29.32
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Dead Arm Shiraz 2003 37.5cl
We have managed to secure a limited quantity of this fantastic wine in half bottles
‘One of this estate’s flagship wines, the 2003 The Dead Arm Shiraz appears to be better than the 2002. A deeper, richer, fuller-bodied offering that spent time in equal parts French and American oak, it possesses an opaque purple colour, great intensity, and a fabulously sweet nose of blackberries, cassis, asphalt, earth, and oak. Powerful, super-concentrated, and obviously fashioned from low yields and old vines, this is classic McLaren Vale old vine Shiraz that should age nicely for 15+ years.’ 95 points RP
The 2004 Vintage will be in Stelvin.
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£14.69
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Dead Arm Shiraz 2002 37.5cl
The 2002 The Dead Arm Shiraz was a challenge to effectively analyze. After the magnificent 2001, it comes across as lighter-styled, more elegant, but also closed and restrained. Several hours of aeration were beneficial, but this cuvee seems to be playing it close to the vest. However, there is power beneath the tannic structure.
It has noble breeding, but appears to be totally shut down at present.
Anticipated maturity: 2009 - 2020." 92+ points RP
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£11.75
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Dead Arm Shiraz 75cl 2004
Just Landed - 18th Sept 06
Tasting notes to be listed shortly
The 2004 vintage is in stelvin.
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£29.32
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d'Arenberg Noble Riesling 2005 37.5cl
d'Arenberg Noble 2005
Just arrived - tatsing notes in production.
image shown is for the 2003 vintage.
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£11.60
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Dead Arm Shiraz 2002
The 2002 The Dead Arm Shiraz was a challenge to effectively analyze. After the magnificent 2001, it comes across as lighter-styled, more elegant, but also closed and restrained. Several hours of aeration were beneficial, but this cuvee seems to be playing it close to the vest. However, there is power beneath the tannic structure.
It has noble breeding, but appears to be totally shut down at present.
Anticipated maturity: 2009 - 2020." 92+ points RP
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£34.92
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d'Arenberg The High Trellis Cabernet Sauvignon 2003
A dense crimson red colour with purple tinges. Mint and capsicum Cabernet edges on the nose above a ripe blackberry, plum and licorice base. On the tongue, mouth filling sweet blackberries, plums and blackcurrant flavours are highlighted by the rich, strong mid-palate. Mulberry-like fruit continues balanced by finely structured and firm fruit and oak tannin on the typically long finish. After time, it develops a brick brown-red colour and classical cigar-box, tobacco, coffee and mocha smells with similar flavours on the palate.
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£9.62
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Dead Arm Shiraz 75cl 2004
The bottles of Dead Arm 2004 - have now landed!
It is a classic.
The 2004 vintage is in stelvin.
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£29.32
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d'Arenberg Noble Riesling 2001 37.5cl
The Noble Riesling typically exhibits ripeness and richness of flavour and an overall intensity which, combined with balancing acidity results in a rare wine with extraordinary characters of lemon, peach, tropical citrus and honeysuckle, as well as quince, cumquat, marmalade and dried apricot characters.
Serving and Cellaring Suggestions:
Serve Chilled below 8 ?C. now or over the next 2-12 years with fruit, delicate seafood and with pate or oysters, as a dessert by itself or with almonds and bleu cheese.
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£11.16
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d'Arenberg Noble Riesling 2002 37.5cl
The Noble Riesling has an appearance of a rich straw-gold, green-tinged colour. The shriveled grapes are intensely sweet and full of character, producing a wine with a wide array of fruits – pear, citrus peel, lime, nectarine, white peach, cumquats, citrus blossom, lime, and mango. There is also perfumed passionfruit, pineapple cubes and peachy
‘botrytis cinerea’ smells. The wine retains about half its natural sugar, leaving a beautifully sweet lush wine that has a long, very precise mouth-filling Riesling flavours with a white peach, citrus zest and a marmalade, cumquat, sweet peach that crescendo with an intensely luscious, yet refreshingly clean, acidic finish. With age, the colour deepens while the characters slowly transform into lifted caramel, butterscotch and beeswax complexities. Other tertiary aromas sometimes found are nutty marzipan, marmalade, cloves and orange peel. The backdrop remains refreshing, with lemon-lime and dried apricot acidity.
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£12.83
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Dead Arm Shiraz 2001
Readers should be on the look out for the 2001 The Dead Arm Shiraz, one of the greatest examples of this cuvee. Its dense black/purple colour is accompanied by celestial aromas of melted licorice, graphite, blackberries, cassis, incense, anise and toasty oak. Fabulously concentrated, with great purity, an unctuous, viscous texture, and an
amazingly long, 60-second plus finish, this fabulous baby will need 5-6 years of cellaring, and should drink well over the following 20-25 years. 98+ points RP
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£52.77
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d'Arenberg Sticks & Stones Tempranillo/Grenache/Sousao 2003
"Very loud flowers and ripe, dried herbs are detected in the exotic aroma, along with a wide array of fruits - cherries, cranberries, mulberries, plums, boysenberries and blackberries. Also showing is a warm, rich, earth character leading into forest floor. The palate is immediately fruity with all sorts of red and blackberries, lots of dark cherries, boysenberries and a seam of violets working through. It is rich and juicy with lively, gritty tannins. A very long earth and dried herb end with a twist of liquorice and blackberry completes the finish. This is a big wine built for the long haul. Recommended to be cellared for many years." Chester Osborn, Winemaker
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£13.70
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d'Arenberg Nostalgia Rare Tawny NV 37.5cl
Nostalgia’s colour is light to mid tawny mahogany and yellow brown, with khaki and olive green tinges at the edges, indicating advanced base material age.
On the nose, d’Arenberg’s Nostalgia exhibits complex, spicy lifted nutty rancio aromas. Caramel, toffee, coffee and butterscotch smells augment dried fruit, especially prune and fig characters, which are also evident on the palate.
In the mouth complex oak, fruit and brandy flavours marry to produce a luscious, raisined, spicy nutty and lingering finish.
The palate, although generous with English toffee, butterscotch and Christmas cake-like flavours, is well balanced by the drying sensations that come from long ageing in oak.
In recent times, roughly every other vintage Chester Osborn fortifies small amounts of Grenache and occasionally Shiraz to put more young Nostalgia material in old brandy buttes, barriques and hogsheads at d’Arenberg to ensure a small but hopefully constant supply of Nostalgia Fine Old Tawny when introduced to the final blend in future. Until then, the older Nostalgia is best drunk with local almonds, currants, dried fruit, cheeses and coffee.
Serving and Cellaring Suggestions:
Serve at room temperature 16 – 24 ?C now (will not improve in the bottle, but can be kept open as long as has a cork in it) with dried fruit and nuts, especially walnuts, almonds and open –fire roasted chestnuts, most mature or strong cheese, petits- fours and puddings. Pairs well with all cigars and coffee.
RP 92 points
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£20.75
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d'Arenberg The Ironstone Pressings Grenache/Shiraz 2002
In its youth, d’Arenberg’s ‘Ironstone Pressings’ is almost black, unusual for such a blend. Upon release, this vintage is extraordinarily fragrant but also very tight. Violets and other flowers dominate at this stage, but become more complex with a wide array of spices and emerging plums, dark cherries, cranberries and blackberries. As with previous vintages of this wine, the extreme terroir shows through due to the extraordinarily low grape yield; characters of earth, stones and dried plant material feature. With time the full spice, strawberry and liquorice and blackcurrants will develop with fresh pepper tails; at this stage, it is a mean monster with fragrant, gritty, fruit tannins that go on forever. Eventually, the Grenache and Shiraz blossom as rich, sweet, violet-like scents, with spicy based aroma, before malty, sweet, dark chocolate flavours and crunchy, chewy textured black olive, spicy ginger and long fleshy textures. The Mourvedre adds dried herbs and iodine characters that are very persistent, matched with slightly chalky tannins. The hallmark of vigorous, fine piquant tannin and acidity continue to reside with ‘The Ironstone Pressings’ after some considerable time, as have previous vintages since the late 1950’s.
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£23.88
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d'Arenberg The Coppermine Road Cabernet Sauvignon 2001
Our current Stocks of 2001 are now exhausted - we are trying to get more.
"Upon release, d’Arenberg’s The Coppermine Road Cabernet Sauvignon has a deep vibrant young deep red - purple colour.
The nose shows intense blackcurrant fruit, slight cedary cinnamon spice barrel ferment & oak derived aromas, violet and mint scents as well as liquorice & chocolate smells. Primary Mulberry aromas are also evident on the palate. Combined with some blueberry, cassis and sweet rhubarb flavours dominating the typically rich & intense sweet, cedary middle palate flavours.
These are followed by a typically firm but fine- grained vibrant tannins, extended texture overlaying soft plum which deceptively disguise the rich powerful cassis and blackcurrant flavours. "
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£21.64
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d'Arenberg The Custodian Grenache 2004
Back in Stock!
Touches of white pepper, tobacco, cinnamon and spice follow onto the medium to full bodied juicy palate. The rich plum and sweet blackberry fruit flavours are lifted by gentle vanilla and coffee mocha oak flavours and crunchy fine grained fruit and oak tannins. After some bottle ageing the young fruit scented aromas and flavours gradually transform into velvety rich, spicy, strawberry jam, creamy chocolate, earthy and smoky edged aromas. This integration and complexity develops on the palate too, where the young tannin slowly falls away to reveal a seamless, soft sweet rolling middle palate mulberry and prune like fruit with tertiary biscuit, coffee and chewy old leather flavours before a long, soft, dry mouth filling fine acid finish.
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£9.62
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Dead Arm Shiraz 1995
“The red wines are all exuberantly fruity, cleanly made rich wines. Among the more limited edition offerings are several wines that represent some of d'Arenberg's finest parcels, all of which are basket-pressed. The Dead-Arm Shiraz is an old vine Shiraz cuvee that is fermented in oak barrels and raised in mostly new American oak. It is a sexy, flashy, flamboyant Shiraz that is short on restraint, but big on screaming fruit. The 1995 Dead-Arm Shiraz exhibits an opaque purple color, as well as a fabulous nose of ripe, late harvest-like, plummy, blackberry fruit, and cassis. Viscous, thick, and rich, with layers of flavor, low acidity, and sexy new oak, this lusty-styled Shiraz should drink well for at least a decade.” RP 91 points
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£80.14
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d'Arenberg Vintage Fortified Shiraz 2002 37.5cl
Half Bottles
Upon release, d’Arenberg’s Vintage Fortified Shiraz, traditionally just known as “Vintage Port", has a consistent deep, intense purple almost black colour matched by just as intense aromas of ripe, spicy shiraz fruit, combined with a lifted (and slightly ‘taily’) brandy spirit. Spicy blackberry, mulberry, plum and blackcurrant fruit smells are also evident on the structured young palate.
The initial attack of primary shiraz fruit flavours combined with the light brandy spirit ensure the palate is rich, intense and full flavoured, especially in the middle, all before a rich, drying astringency from the fruit tannins leaving no lingering sweetness on the finish.
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£10.09
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Dead Arm Shiraz 1996
“Year in and year out d'Arenberg's finest cuvee is their spectacular Shiraz made from 100+ year old, head-pruned vines. It is an exquisite, multi-dimensional wine that is sure to make a formidable impression with readers. It is aged in 100% new oak, tipping the scales at a whopping 14.9% alcohol, yet has a glorious level of fruit and extract. The full-bodied, port-like 1996 Dead Arm Shiraz displays scents of black fruits, prunes, licorice, and pepper. Thick, rich, and unctuously-textured, this is a dazzling old vine Shiraz that can be drunk now, or cellared for 15-20 years.” RP 96 points
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£93.06
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Dead Arm Shiraz 2000
This estate’s most renowned offering is their old vine (90+ years) Shiraz called The Dead Arm. The unfined/unfiltered 2000 The Dead Arm Shiraz is one of South Australia’s finest wines of the vintage. A perfume of grilled steak intermixed with blackberries, new saddle leather, earth, pepper and melted licorice rises from this
awesome red. With great power, richness, and no hard edges, it is still young and primary, but should hit its peak in 3-7 years, and last for two decades or more.
RP 94 points
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£52.77
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Dead Arm Shiraz 1998
The 1998 The Dead Arm Shiraz (from a vineyard planted prior to 1890) is outrageously rich, spectacular stuff, the likes of which only Australia seems capable of making. Whiners may complain that it is too big, too rich, too flavorful, and too damn good, but this opaque purple-colored offering is loaded with blackberry liqueur, smoke, charcoal, pepper, cassis, and licorice. Unctuously-textured and full-bodied, but neither heavy nor overbearing, the wine's sweet tannin and low acidity are hidden in the cascade of fruit and glycerin that melt on the palate. This riveting, compelling effort can be drunk now, but promises to age well for two decades or more.
RP 98 points
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£63.98
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d'Arenberg The Coppermine Road Cabernet Sauvignon 2002
The 2002 The Coppermine Road Cabernet Sauvignon may turn out to be even better than the 2001. A longer, cooler growing season has produced an inky/ruby/purple-hued wine with a big, sweet nose of crème de cassis, graphite, blackberries, incense, roasted meats and background vanilla. Full-bodied and well-extracted, it is
clearly made from low-yielding vines. Drink this heady, rich, layered Cabernet between 2008-2020.
RP 93+ Points
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£21.64
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d'Arenberg Noble Roussanne Marsanne Viognier 2003 37.5cl
d'Arenberg Noble Roussanne Marsanne Viognier 2003
Presently the wine is dominated with characters of pear, cut pear skin, peach, tropical fruits, spring flowers, rose and apricot. There is also an almond green husk like note of the perfumed Roussanne coming through. We expect more characters will develop with time.
The palate is lush with pears and apricots, white peach notes which lead to flavours of mango and a ripe passionfruit spectrum. The Roussanne imparts the pear and floral notes, the Marsanne the green honeysuckle and the Viognier; the apricot spectrum. This wine is beautifully suited to be served with a dessert or on its own as an aperitif.
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£21.33
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Dead Arm Shiraz 1999
The unfined/unfiltered 1999 The Dead Arm Shiraz (2,000 cases) was aged in 100% new oak, of which 70% was American and 30% French. It is about as natural and unmanipulated a product of the vineyard as one can find. Fullbodied and awesomely rich, notes of black pepper, licorice, and blackberry as well as cherry liqueur cascade over the palate with enormous concentration and intensity, high tannin, and a structured, muscular style. Give it 3-4 years of cellaring, and consume it over the following 2-3 ecades. It is a timeless museum piece made in a style that can only be produced in Barossa or McLaren Vale.
RP 96 Points
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£52.77
(Including: VAT at 17.5%)
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