 | 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.
Price: £9.56 (Including: VAT at 17.5%) |
