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All our current vintages are listed below - for older vintages please visit "The d'Arenberg Collection" via the link above.
This McLaren Vale estate can truly be described as iconic. Every year, it seems, the restless innovation and energy of chief winemaker Chester Osborn results in yet more bizarrely named wines of huge concentration, flair and character. Last year’s newest recruit, the Derelict Vineyard Grenache (well, would you call a wine ‘derelict’?!) won nothing but praise from the wine press:
"d’Arenberg are so clever… they just keep churning out interesting wines with memorable names at decent prices. Very low-yielding old Grenache vines yielded this powerful brew with fruit and tannin still oozing out of the glass. No hurry to drink this." Jancis Robinson MW, www.jancisrobinson.com
"if you love Australian wines, d'Arenberg is a winery to seek out as these offerings all possess abundant soul as well as character." Robert Parker
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Buy ANY 24 bottles of d'Arenberg wine from this page and we will be delighted to inlude a complimentry half bottle of the Dead Arm '02!
Whilst Stock Last
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.
Price:
£8.27
(Including: VAT at 17.5%)
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d'Arenberg Love Grass Shiraz
Just in!
The newest addition to the d'Arenberg collection
Price:
£7.99
(Including: VAT at 17.5%)
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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.
Price:
£21.33
(Including: VAT at 17.5%)
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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.
Price:
£21.33
(Including: VAT at 17.5%)
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d'Arenberg Vintage Fortified Shiraz 2004 75cl
Upon release, eight decades of d’Arenberg’s ‘Vintage Fortified’ Shiraz have had a consistent
deep, intense purple-almost black colour, matched by just as intense aromas of ripe, berry-like
fruit, spice, liquorice and juniper, 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 fruit flavours, combined with the
integrated, unwooded brandy spirit ensure the palate is rich, intense and full-flavoured, before
a rich, drying astringency from the fruit tannins.
With significant bottle age, ‘The Vintage Fortified’ Shiraz gains extraordinary complexity. The
intense young colour becomes a lighter, more ruby-red initially, then quite amber. Fruit and
brandy spirit integrate further, making way for chocolate, coffee, and walnut, even hints of
liquorice and anise smells. On the mature palate, sweet full and rich fig, chocolate, malt, coffee,
leather and tobacco-like flavours dominate initially, before spicy, tea-like soft tannin dryness
and a rolling hazelnut and juicy butterscotch length.
‘The Vintage Fortified’ Shiraz can live in the bottle for quite extraordinary periods. At this age,
whiffs of rosehip, mushrooms, orange peel, estery sweet lemon and singed vanilla bean are
some of the aromas detected, but in the main these extremely old wines become quite soft -
vanilla dominated on the nose and brandyesque on the palate.
Price:
£15.42
(Including: VAT at 17.5%)
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d'Arenberg Vintage Fortified Shiraz 2004 37.5cl
Upon release, eight decades of d’Arenberg’s ‘Vintage Fortified’ Shiraz have had a consistent
deep, intense purple-almost black colour, matched by just as intense aromas of ripe, berry-like
fruit, spice, liquorice and juniper, 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 fruit flavours, combined with the
integrated, unwooded brandy spirit ensure the palate is rich, intense and full-flavoured, before
a rich, drying astringency from the fruit tannins.
With significant bottle age, ‘The Vintage Fortified’ Shiraz gains extraordinary complexity. The
intense young colour becomes a lighter, more ruby-red initially, then quite amber. Fruit and
brandy spirit integrate further, making way for chocolate, coffee, and walnut, even hints of
liquorice and anise smells. On the mature palate, sweet full and rich fig, chocolate, malt, coffee,
leather and tobacco-like flavours dominate initially, before spicy, tea-like soft tannin dryness
and a rolling hazelnut and juicy butterscotch length.
‘The Vintage Fortified’ Shiraz can live in the bottle for quite extraordinary periods. At this age,
whiffs of rosehip, mushrooms, orange peel, estery sweet lemon and singed vanilla bean are
some of the aromas detected, but in the main these extremely old wines become quite soft -
vanilla dominated on the nose and brandyesque on the palate.
Price:
£9.99
(Including: VAT at 17.5%)
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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.
Price:
£9.56
(Including: VAT at 17.5%)
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.
Price:
£9.62
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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.
Price:
£12.55
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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
Price:
£31.50
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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??)
Price:
£9.99
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d'Arenberg The Coppermine Road Cabernet Sauvignon 2003
"The spicy 2003 The Coppermine Road Cabernet Sauvignon (aged in equal parts new French and new American oak) reveals copious quantities of black currants, cedar, vanilla, and white chocolate aromas, followed by spicy, tannic, full-bodied, powerful, dense, well-structured flavors. It should drink well for 10-15+ years." 94/100 Robert Parker
Price:
£21.64
(Including: VAT at 17.5%)
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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.
Price:
£11.60
(Including: VAT at 17.5%)
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Dead Arm Shiraz 2004 37.5cl
We are currently awaiting stock of the latest addition to the Dead Arm collection
Price:
£15.86
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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.
Price:
£29.32
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