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d'Arenberg "The Dead Arm" 4*2003, 2*2004 McLaren Vale Shiraz - Parker 95 points ,

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4 * 75cl Bottles of d'Arenberg Dead Arm 2003
2 * 75cl Bottles of d'Arenberg Dead Arm 2004

Both vintages received 95 points from Parker.

I will include a d'Arenberg wooden box end with the sale (see picture).

2003 Vintage

Shiraz lovers should be on the look out for the 2003 Dead Arm Shiraz, a great example of this cuvee. I'ts dense black/purple colour is accompanied by celestial aromas of melted liquorice,grafite,blackberries,
cassis,incense,anise,and toasty oak.Fabulously concentrated,with great purity an unctuous,viscous texture,and an amazingly long 60-second plus finish.

This fantastic vintage is drinking well now but will continue to develop over the following 20-25 years.

6 x 2003 Vintage - Robert Parker's Wine Advocate - 95 Points

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
The heady aroma is both powerful and pretty with notes of fennel, purple flowers and blossom mingling with ripe, varietal purple fruits and black pepper. The oak is hardly evident which allows fruit and soil complexities to emerge with edges of rhubarb and red mulberry and savoury characters of dried herbs, game and spice. The palate opens with anise, black pepper, graphite and restrained dark cherries before it gives way to seductive mulberry, plum, licorice and spice. It has great power, depth and length with very vibrant, gritty fruit tannins providing immense structure. Notes of anise and spice linger for a long time after the last sip.


2004 Vintage

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 display amazing intensity.

The Characteristics
Upon release, ‘The Dead Arm’ Shiraz has a vivid, young, dense, purple-red colour. Very intense aromas with a complex combination of fragrant spices and violets, dark cherry, blackberry and blueberry, are made more complex with great liquorice, pepper and integrated svelte of boot-polish like characters. The taste is rich, gutsy and virile, with attacking spice, dark liquorice, cherry, blackberry, plum and dried black olive. The level of fruit weight masks the framework of oak tannins; however, the mineral fruit grittiness is balanced with a very long fruit-fragrant, persistent spice will yield a wine of great ageing power.

The Vintage
After excellent winter rains and then a warm wet spring the vineyards
were set for a good start to vintage. Flowering was consistent, for the
first time crop sizes looked more normal than previous years. We experienced the coldest January for 12 years followed by a warm to hot
February and mild March which carried on into April to eventually become a very long Indian summer. As vintage proceeded the vineyards with rich, dense soils ripened with good acidity and weight. Berries were turgid, and expressed excellent fruit characters and rich, ripe tannins. While some early picked parcels of red varietals were exciting, free of mould, good sugar acid ripeness it was the vineyards picked in the mid to latter stages of harvest produced substantially bigger and beautifully balanced parcels of fruit with outstanding colour, levels of flavour richness and tannin structures.


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170676

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d'Arenberg "The Dead Arm" 4*2003, 2*2004 McLaren Vale Shiraz - Parker 95 points

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6 bottles, 75cl each

Duty Status:

Duty Paid

Country / Region:

Australia, Victoria, McLaren Vale

Fill Level:

Into Neck (IN)

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£18.00.00. If being posted abroad, purchaser will pay additional insurance/postage charges.
From KY2, Fife, United Kingdom

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4 * 75cl Bottles of d'Arenberg Dead Arm 2003
2 * 75cl Bottles of d'Arenberg Dead Arm 2004

Both vintages received 95 points from Parker.

I will include a d'Arenberg wooden box end with the sale (see picture).

2003 Vintage

Shiraz lovers should be on the look out for the 2003 Dead Arm Shiraz, a great example of this cuvee. I'ts dense black/purple colour is accompanied by celestial aromas of melted liquorice,grafite,blackberries,
cassis,incense,anise,and toasty oak.Fabulously concentrated,with great purity an unctuous,viscous texture,and an amazingly long 60-second plus finish.

This fantastic vintage is drinking well now but will continue to develop over the following 20-25 years.

6 x 2003 Vintage - Robert Parker's Wine Advocate - 95 Points

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
The heady aroma is both powerful and pretty with notes of fennel, purple flowers and blossom mingling with ripe, varietal purple fruits and black pepper. The oak is hardly evident which allows fruit and soil complexities to emerge with edges of rhubarb and red mulberry and savoury characters of dried herbs, game and spice. The palate opens with anise, black pepper, graphite and restrained dark cherries before it gives way to seductive mulberry, plum, licorice and spice. It has great power, depth and length with very vibrant, gritty fruit tannins providing immense structure. Notes of anise and spice linger for a long time after the last sip.


2004 Vintage

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 display amazing intensity.

The Characteristics
Upon release, ‘The Dead Arm’ Shiraz has a vivid, young, dense, purple-red colour. Very intense aromas with a complex combination of fragrant spices and violets, dark cherry, blackberry and blueberry, are made more complex with great liquorice, pepper and integrated svelte of boot-polish like characters. The taste is rich, gutsy and virile, with attacking spice, dark liquorice, cherry, blackberry, plum and dried black olive. The level of fruit weight masks the framework of oak tannins; however, the mineral fruit grittiness is balanced with a very long fruit-fragrant, persistent spice will yield a wine of great ageing power.

The Vintage
After excellent winter rains and then a warm wet spring the vineyards
were set for a good start to vintage. Flowering was consistent, for the
first time crop sizes looked more normal than previous years. We experienced the coldest January for 12 years followed by a warm to hot
February and mild March which carried on into April to eventually become a very long Indian summer. As vintage proceeded the vineyards with rich, dense soils ripened with good acidity and weight. Berries were turgid, and expressed excellent fruit characters and rich, ripe tannins. While some early picked parcels of red varietals were exciting, free of mould, good sugar acid ripeness it was the vineyards picked in the mid to latter stages of harvest produced substantially bigger and beautifully balanced parcels of fruit with outstanding colour, levels of flavour richness and tannin structures.


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Item Details

Item ID:

170676

Name:

d'Arenberg "The Dead Arm" 4*2003, 2*2004 McLaren Vale Shiraz - Parker 95 points

Producer:

Quantity / Size:

6 bottles, 75cl each

Duty Status:

Duty Paid

Country / Region:

Australia, Victoria, McLaren Vale

Fill Level:

Into Neck (IN)

Ended:

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£18.00.00. If being posted abroad, purchaser will pay additional insurance/postage charges.
From KY2, Fife, United Kingdom

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