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    202
  • Producer ranking ?

    13
  • Decanting time

    6h
  • When to drink

    now to 2035
  • Food Pairing

    Lamb

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The Story

The Story Behind The Name / Dead Arm is a vine disease caused by the fungus Eutypa Lata that randomly affects vineyards all over the world. Often vines affected are severely pruned or replanted. One half, or an ‘arm’ of the vine slowly becomes reduced to dead wood. That side may be lifeless and brittle, but the grapes on the other side, while low yielding, display amazing intensity.

The Characteristics

A classic Dead Arm in every sense of the word. The nose is brooding and alluring, earthy notes combined with dark fruits, fennel and baking spice. The longer this wine sits in the glass, the further it unfurls opening into notes of sweeter berry fruit laced with more of those soily, forest floor notes.


The palate is dense and concentrated with a plethora of fruit characters, plum, blackberry, mulberry, earth, iodine and black olive. Despite the richness and intensity of the attack and mid palate the experience surprisingly crescendos with a lick of spicy pepper, coupled with lovely, fined grained, textural tannins that seem to persist in the mouth forever. Complex, savoury and moreish!

100% McLaren Vale Shiraz

 

 

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Wine Information

 The Vintage The quality of vintage 2006 was very good across most varieties with fruit characters noticeably fragrant with good acidity and excellent length of flavour. The lead up to vintage was uneventful with average winter rain followed by heavy rains in spring that resulted in vines with healthy, balanced canopies on most soils. A mild, early, summer leading into a warmer period during veraison stopped vegetative growth allowing vines to channel energy into the fruit. A prolonged cool period occurred after veraison in February with some rain which enabled the fruit to ripen without any stress. Finally the warmth returned in March with cool evening temperatures to complete ripening in almost perfect conditions enhancing fruit flavour and richness without diluting levels of natural acidity. Picking was staggered with many parcels picked in wonderful autumn conditions. 

 

The Vineyards The d’Arenberg shiraz vineyards vary greatly in their soil composition. Despite their similar appellation (McLaren Vale) individual plots are markedly different due to the fact that the area features glacial deposits, beach sand and limestone. Soils influence the fruit characters significantly. Vineyards with shallow sands on clay impart the vibrant perfume and length. The red earth on limestone soils across the hill tops adds an extra level of spice and a lively intensity to the fruit and tannins. Shallow loams on marley limestone clay give the fruit its late-emerging liquorice characters and firm gutsy tannins. The ripening periods in our vineyards differ such that we pick individual parts of each vineyard at separate times to ensure correct fruit flavour and character.

 

 

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Tasting note

color

Deep, Purple and Healthy

ending

Medium, Round and Extensive

nose

Intense, Complex, Seductive and Refined

recommend

Yes

taste

Balanced, Concentrated, Well-structured, Youthful, Full-bodied, Firm, Round, Harmonious and Silky tannins

Verdict

nice but not special and Well-rounded

Written Notes

Bottle normal size and with by the neck level. This fine example displays purple, and looking healthy, full and deep . The bouquet is intense, open, complex, forward and seductive. The taste is round, vigor, ripe, firm, and full-bodied, with balanced, concentrated structure and youthful. The ending was medium, extensive, spicy and vibrant. This wine was sexy and fine. I paid around 100-200€ a bottle. It is at its best 2030-2050 and decant at least 2t before tasting.. Good value for money.
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Information

Origin

McLaren Vale, South Australia

Vintage Quality

Above Average

Value For Money

Good

Investment potential

Below Average

Fake factory

None

Glass time

2h

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Inside Information

2006 d’Arenberg The Dead Arm 100% McLaren Vale Shiraz 

The Cellaring Potential This wine will be relatively closed and backward in style if not allowed some opportunity to develop in the bottle. After time in bottle, ‘The Dead Arm’ gains a biscuity, cinnamon, chocolate, earthy, eucalyptus-based bouquet on top of rich blackberry pie aromas. Tobacco, mushroom, malt and earth aromas play a part on the long, fleshy, chocolate-mint and spice flavours. This wine will develop with a great balance of tannins, acidity and fruit. Classic McLaren Vale Shiraz… 

Technical Information 

Harvest Dates 28 February to 16 April Oak Maturation 20 months in new & aged French and American oak barriques 

Alcohol by Vol: 14.5% Glucose+Fructose 0.9 g/L 

Bottling Date: 14 December 2007 Chief Winemaker Chester d’Arenberg Osborn 

The Characteristics A very dark, vibrant, polished appearance with a dense red crimson hue. The aroma upon opening is surprisingly elegant showing superb fruit characters dominated with red fruits, plum, spices, red cherries, cranberry, white and green pepper and blueberry notes against a back drop of very fine oak. The flavours are ripe; red fruits, cherries, plums and black olives with edges of dried garden herbs. As the wine opens the palate is extremely tight and controlled. In many ways this wine is more elegant than previous vintages with tannins that have a wonderful mineral grittiness that is balanced right to the wine’s pointed finish. This wine shows a great potential to age.

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