d'Arenberg The Dead Arm Shiraz McLaren Vale 2019 AFKAT_2025 Poulsard and Trousseau

Poulsard and Trousseau

Aged 16 months in barrels (30% new)

terroir-driven expression than the famous Pesquera

Planted to Chardonnay on limestone

His approach is stubbornly hands-off: organic fruit from growers he's known for a decade

d'Arenberg The Dead Arm Shiraz McLaren Vale 2019 AFKAT_2025 Poulsard and TrousseauThe 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