D'Arenberg Fine Wines

d'Arenberg Wines

d’Arenberg has become a famous name in Australian wine by being strikingly individual. In fact, since its beginnings the winery has managed to turn individuality into an art form by doing a whole lot of little things differently.

At Winestore, we are proud to present a number of their wines from superb vintages, which are becoming rarer and rarer including various vintages of the famed The Dead Arm Shiraz - a wine of legends and highly collectable.

The Dead Arm Shiraz is one of the flagship wines at d’Arenberg - the very best Shiraz from one of the oldest producers in arguably the best Shiraz producing region in Australia, McLaren Vale.

The Dead Arm gets its name in a fairly inauspicious way. It is named after the disease (Eutypa Lata) which afflicts some of the oldest vines at d’Arenberg from which we get the majority of fruit destined for The Dead Arm. The disease, Eutypa Lata, or ‘Dead Arm’ is common all around the world in old vineyard sites. The disease in effect slowly reduces one of the ‘arms’ of the vines to dead wood, which then means the other arm of the vine produces small volumes of the most incredibly concentrated and highly flavoured grapes.

This makes ideal material to go into their top Shiraz. The grapes are processed (as are all of d’Arenberg reds) using the gentle Demoisy rubber toothed, open-mouthed crusher, and fermented in wax-lined, headed down open fermenters which are foot trod (and being ever hygiene-conscious at d’Arenberg, the feet are clad in waders!) and temperature controlled. The still fermenting grapes are pressed off in baskets through the old ‘Coq’ and ‘Bromley & Tregoning’ presses into mainly new American and French oak barriques for 22 months or thereabouts, before blending and bottling at d’Arenberg.

The Dead Arm is a spectacular example of McLaren Vale Shiraz; concentrated, multi-dimensional with huge fruit, length and texture, immense balance and ageing potential.

In addition to The Dead Arm, we are pleased to offer OTHER RARE D'ARENBERG WINES - please enoy our selection above ....

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