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Community Tasting Notes 384
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hkbob Likes this wine: 95 points
May 4, 2024 - A 30 minute decant and this was good to go. Burnished garnet. All secondary aromatics of blackberry fruit with some leather, tobacco and spice notes. On the palate, secondary flavours of very dark fruit, with cherry, umami, iodine and a touch of anise. Mouthwatering acidity with some grippy tannins outlasting the fruit on the longish finish so best consumed with some aged cheeses or heartier dishes. The old vines bearing the fruit for this wine have produced something with tremendous longevity and durability. I have been quite impressed with every bottle enjoyed of this over the past 15 years or so. A poor man's Grange perhaps but so delicious in its own right. Bravo.
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kenv Likes this wine: 93 points
March 28, 2024 - [Double decanted for 4 hours at 1pm.] Big spicy red fruit and licorice nose. Big in the mouth but balanced. Lovely. Could use more time.
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salil wrote:
March 28, 2024 - WCC Syrah from around the world tasting (Clifton Park, NY): Came across relatively one-note with lots of black fruit, though I also didn't spend a lot of time on this - found a couple of the other wines in the flight more interesting and also kept going back to my pours from the previous flight, while this didn't really hold my interest.
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juffer Likes this wine: 93 points
March 2, 2024 - Nose of leather and chocolate mint. Rich mouth. Finishes with cherry liquor filled chocolates, but in a good way. Not at all over the top, restrained and well balanced. Steve's favorite wine from my cellar. Rest in peace.
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RED AND BLACK Likes this wine: 93 points
February 24, 2024 - OK 98 from Parker maybe too much, but this is still a very good wine. I like the aussie shiraz and this one is very good. More than 20 yrs but this is still in good shape for many more years
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Wine Definition
- Vintage 2001
- Type Red
- Producer d'Arenberg
- Varietal Shiraz
- Designation The Dead Arm
- Vineyard n/a
- Country Australia
- Region South Australia
- SubRegion Fleurieu
- Appellation McLaren Vale
- UPC Codes 7290006362353, 767749002060, 767749002411, 9311832391008, 9311832391107
Community Holdings
- Pending Delivery 21 (0%)
- In Cellars 4,236 (54%)
- Consumed 3,540 (45%)
Food Pairing
Community Recommendations
as a standalone, barbecue, Chicken Parmesan, chocolate, pizza, red meat, Shrimp Boil, some rich pastas and stewsWho Likes This Wine
99% Like It 89 votes
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- Producerd'Arenberg
- VarietyShiraz
- DesignationThe Dead Arm
- CountryAustralia
- RegionSouth Australia
- SubRegionFleurieu
- AppellationMcLaren Vale
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