d'Arenberg The Dead Arm Shiraz McLaren Vale 2019 OLDRIOJA Nobody works it with more

Nobody works it with more authority than Domaine des Comtes Lafon

but already remarkably approachable

Garnet-colored in the glass

the vines deliver Zinfandel that looks nothing like the jammy stereotype

d'Arenberg The Dead Arm Shiraz McLaren Vale 2019 OLDRIOJA Nobody works it with moreThe 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