d'Arenberg Laughing Magpie Shiraz Viognier 2008 75cl

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Colour
Red
Vintage
2008
Producer
d'Arenberg
Country
AUSTRALIA
Region
MCLAREN VALE
Alcohol
14.5%
Product code
14ARE30B2008
Availability
In Stock
Grape Variety
90% Shiraz, 10% Viognier

Tasting Notes

As well as varietal dark fruits and spice, the nose features savoury characters of cooked meats, spices and cracked black pepper. The palate is robust and concentrated with great intensity. The fruit is more expressive on the palate with a touch of raspberry, plum, blackcurrant and blueberry with underlying spice and just a hint of savoury oak. The mineral silky tannins build nicely on the palate and provide good structure and impressive length. This wine will benefit from bottle age and if cellared correctly will drink well over the next 15 years.

Vinification Details.

Very concentrated ripe bunches of Shiraz and Viognier were gently crushed by a Demoisy open mouthed, rubber toothed crusher, then co-fermented together in traditional, headed down open fermenters where the traditional foot-treading in wader-clad feet takes place. After about 2 weeks the must (the still fermenting juice) was then gently basket pressed by our 19th Century Coq and Bromley & Tregoning presses, and then transferred into American and French oak barriques for maturation. At 12 months, Dead Arm downcasts are selected from oak and are blended together to balance the level of Viognier in the final blend.

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.

More information

makers name

Chester d’Arenberg Osborn

wine ph

3.3