d'Arenberg The Twenty Eight Road Mourvedre 2007 75cl

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Colour
Red
Vintage
2007
Producer
d'Arenberg
Country
AUSTRALIA
Region
MCLAREN VALE
Alcohol
14.5%
Product code
14ARE11B2007
Availability
36 cases
Grape Variety
100% Mourvedre

Tasting Notes

The aroma opens with cherries and blackberry that make way for characters of charcuterie with a floral background of violets, potpourri and a touch of lavender.

The palate is focused and shows restraint with fruits in the red spectrum well in check and balanced with defining savoury characteristics of ripe dried herbs, roasted vegetables, cooked meats and a pleasant and varietal iodine character.

The palate builds with thyme adding complexity to the finish with long gritty tannins. Tightly structured this wine will reward cellaring. Decanting recommended.

Vinification Details.

Walking the vineyard rows and tasting grapes, Chester Osborn classifies and determines the ideal picking time for each individual vineyard.

Small batches are crushed in the Demoisy open-mouthed,

rubber toothed crusher and then transferred to five tonne headed-down open fermenters.

Foot treading is undertaken two thirds of the way through

fermentation. When tannin extraction is just right the wine is basket pressed and transferred to old French oak barriques to complete primary and secondary fermentation. In barrel the wine is left on lees to slow aging and keep the wine fresher while also reducing the oak influence. There is no racking until final blending.

Chester and the winemaking team undertake an extensive

barrel tasting process to determine the final blend. The

Twenty-Eight Road does not undertake fining or filtration prior to bottling.

12 Months in French Oak Barriques

Producer Information

Joseph Rowe Osborn, founder of d'Arenberg and patron of the turf, bought his first McLaren Vale vineyards with the winnings of his racehorse, Footbolt, whose name lives on in Shiraz form. His grandson d'Arry and great-grandson Chester inherited the business and have built it into one of Australia's best loved wineries. The last decade has seen Chester develop a range of white wines every bit as individual and thrilling as the reds with which the company made its name. With the iconic red stripe labels and funky names d'Arenberg's wines have a loyal following, eager for more of the rich, concentrated fruit for which they are famous.

Regional info.

McLaren Vale wines are distinguished by their ripeness and elegance. It excels at producing Shiraz, Grenache, Cabernet Sauvignon and Chardonnay. The soils of McLaren Vale vary greatly and are very randomly distributed because the area is made up of glacial deposits, beach sand and limestone. Vines are planted on a wide variety of soils including podsolic soils of low fertility, fertile red-brown earths, terra rossa, rendzina, soldolic and dark cracking soils.

McLaren Vale's climate is of the Mediterranean type: warm dry summers and cool wet winters, with low relative humidity and relatively high evaporation.

In McLaren Vale, the risk of rainfall or frost during the harvest period is rare and this is one of the reasons why the region is such a marvellously predictable place to grow grapes and make premium wines.

Twenty-Eight Road acts as the eastern boundary of the Osborn vineyard and the d'Arenberg winery. Most of the grapes for this wine are sourced from a 3.6 acre block of bush vine MourvÃ¨dre that runs parallel with Twenty-Eight Road. It was planted in 1920 by the first and second generation Joseph and Frank Osborn. As the winery has expanded this block has been protected as it represents the history of d'Arenberg and produces this very special and unique wine.

More information

food match

Slow cooked Lamb shank

makers name

Chester d’Arenberg Osborn

wine ph

3.34