2000 d'Arenberg The Dead Arm Shiraz 750ml
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Overview
The Dead Arm is one of d'Arenberg's most celebrated McLaren Vale Shiraz releases. The wine takes its name from Eutypa lata, a vine disease that causes one arm of an affected vine to become lifeless while the remaining side produces exceptionally low yields of intensely concentrated fruit. The mature 2000 vintage offers a distinctive opportunity to experience this renowned Australian Shiraz with significant bottle age.
Vineyard
Eutypa dieback gradually reduces the productive portion of affected old vines. Although yields become very small, the surviving grapes can develop remarkable flavour concentration and intensity, forming the distinctive foundation of The Dead Arm Shiraz.
Winemaking and Maturation
Made by winemaker Chester Osborn, the wine was matured for 18 months in a combination of American and French oak. This extended maturation supported its concentrated McLaren Vale fruit with savoury complexity and structure.
Critic Reviews
94 Points - Gismondi on Wine
Tasted August 2003
Look for peppery, pencil lead, saddle leather, notes with vanilla, blackberry jam and smoky, meaty coriander notes. It's warm, rich and round with some noticeable but ripe tannins. The fruity is spicy, pruny blackberry jam with vanilla, orange rind flavours and a meaty, cola coriander finish. It is long, concentrated and stylish but not overly sweet with balanced acidity. Impressive.
93 Points - Wine Spectator
Tasted March 2003
93 Points - Jeremy Oliver
Tasted January 2003
Drinking Window: 2012-2020
Awards
- Blue-Gold and Top 100: Sydney International Wine Competition 2003
- Double Gold: San Francisco International Wine Competition 2003
- Blue-Gold: Sydney International Wine Competition 2004
Specifications
- Vintage: 2000
- Producer: d'Arenberg
- Variety: Shiraz
- Region: McLaren Vale, South Australia
- Country: Australia
- Winemaker: Chester Osborn
- Maturation: 18 months in American and French oak
- Alcohol: 14.5-15%
- Sweetness: Dry
- Suggested Drinking Window: 2006-2023
d’Arenberg Dead Arm Shiraz offers brooding and alluring, plum, blackberry, liquorice and spice entwine with a raft of dark, earthy notes.
This wine will have you second guessing as it skips between red fruits and lifted spice notes on the one hand to more brooding, dark, ashen, earthy aromas on the other. A sign of the vintage no doubt. The seasonal conditions are even more evident on the palate where flavour, tannin and acid are in perfect balance. There is an impressive amount of concentration in this wine but at the same time it feels somewhat more restrained compared to other more in your face, rustic Dead Arm vintages. Particularly when we look at the tannin profile which is a relatively fine example for this wine. The benefit of all of this of course is that it is immediately drinkable upon release. Don’t be fooled by its approachability however, The Dead Arm Shiraz also shows all the hall marks of a classic McLaren Vale Shiraz that will see it age gracefully for 15 plus years.
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