2015 Shiraz The Dead Arm
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Opaque, bright-rimmed violet. A highly perfumed bouquet evokes ripe black and blue fruits, vanilla, licorice and baking spices, and a smoky mineral overtone builds with aeration. Stains the palate with appealingly sweet blackberry, cherry cola and mocha flavors that show excellent clarity and depth. Delivers a suave blend of power and delicacy and finishes very long, spicy and energetic, with repeating blue fruit character and youthfully chewy tannic grip.
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Black cherries and black olives mark the nose of the 2015 The Dead Arm Shiraz, d'Arenberg's flagship bottling. It's a blend of older and younger vines from different sites, depending on what the fruit has to offer. Full-bodied, concentrated and firmly structured, it's nevertheless velvety on the long finish, picking up hints of licorice and tarragon. It should be approachable sooner than The Coppermine Road Cabernet, but it still deserves a couple of years in the cellar.