d'Arenberg The Dead Arm Shiraz McLaren Vale 2019 AFKAT_2025 high in salinity

high in salinity

Three Miyake copper pot stills with different neck shapes and lyne arm angles produce varied spirit styles under one roof

Each 375ml bottle yields six cocktails of bartender-quality cocktails without the mixing

Planted to Chardonnay on limestone

50% Malvasia 50% Chardonnay

d'Arenberg The Dead Arm Shiraz McLaren Vale 2019 AFKAT_2025 high in salinityThe 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