d'Arenberg The Dead Arm Shiraz McLaren Vale 2019 CS20231026 now under the Roederer family's

now under the Roederer family's wing

It combines five distinct whiskeys—including an 11-year bourbon

with dark red fruit

Elegant and precise

Helena looked at their Merlot and decided to make Beaujolais with it

d'Arenberg The Dead Arm Shiraz McLaren Vale 2019 CS20231026 now under the Roederer family'sThe 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