Community Tasting Notes 23

• RDB Wine wrote: 50 points

  December 26, 2020 - Drank from Bin North 10. COVID-19 CHRISTMAS dinner with Aline, Pat and Wally. $29.99 Canadian. Shiraz Grenache blend. Acid chalk nose. Dark purple. Chalk oak vanilla presentation, fruit gone. Past prime. 5/10.

• rmarkey Likes this wine: 94 points

  October 11, 2019 - Excellent. Drunk alongside the 1999 and I preferred this because of the greater fresh berries character though developed. This was also under screw cap compared with the '99 under oak. 14.4% oak.
  Colour: deep red/black berry.
  Bouquet: developed fruit but still spicey berries, violets, mint, no mustiness I often associate with older wines under oak, like the '99 this night.
  Palate: similar to bouquet, with leather and dirty socks, earth, dark chocolate, licorice brambly characters. Good berry, especially raspberry and blackberry characters, and berry mouth feel. Good length and dry finish.
  October 2019

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• graemeg wrote:

  April 1, 2019 - NobleRottersSydney - Blends night (360 Bar & Dining, Sydney): {screwcap, 14.4%} [Stephen] Once an ancient quasi-burgundy-style cellaring wine, it’s a bit disconcerting to see this retaining a lowly place in the d’Arenberg hierarchy; you just know that the fruit from forty years ago is going elsewhere these days. Thus do venerable wineries traduce their own branded heritage. Still, there’s a lovely old raisin/prune sense to the aromas, without too much inherent warmth, and a touch of old carpet; that ancient wine mustiness. The palate is a bit more anonymous, with mild soft tannins, medium acidity, old wine flavour in a generic sense, but without real distinction or depth. Gentle and pleasant. Shortish/medium finish, dry, but not terribly interesting. Doesn’t quite live up to the nose. Objectively OK, but wines of the mid-90s and earlier were much more interesting at a decade old than this.

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• David Bohnsack Likes this wine:

  November 8, 2018 - time to drink up

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• Quarked wrote: 89 points

  July 22, 2017 - Needs a lot of air to come together.

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Wine Definition

• Vintage 2009
• Type Red
• Producer d'Arenberg
• Varietal Red Rhone Blend
• Designation d'Arry's Original Shiraz/Grenache
• Vineyard n/a
• Country Australia
• Region South Australia
• SubRegion Fleurieu
• Appellation McLaren Vale
• UPC Codes 767749002046, 9300633267940

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• In Cellars 120 (39%)
• Consumed 189 (61%)

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