2003 d'Arenberg Shiraz The Dead Arm

Community Tasting Notes (149) Avg Score: 91.3 points

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  3/22/2024 - Ridgerunner Likes this wine: 94 Points

  likely should still decant for 90 minutes. This is an incredible wine right in its prime.

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  3/15/2024 - Duncan H wrote: 89 Points

  Drank with Jonathan G and Matthew over dinner at home. Still very powerful and full bodied. D found it a bit monolithic.

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  2/8/2024 - IndyTom Likes this wine: 90 Points

  This bottle was actually better than the one I drank last year. Decanted for about an hour. Still has nice dark fruit. My last bottle may last another year, but it is drinking too well to wait.

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  2/6/2024 - Joelene wrote: 91 Points

  Still drinking nicely

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  2/3/2024 - J @ y H @ c k Likes this wine: 93 Points

  opened, decanted for an hour, and then followed for a few hours. This is what I love about Aussie Shiraz, with the extra factor that the bottle was autographed by D'Arry Osborne when I met him at Zachy's about 18 years ago. When the roughness subsides and the fruit emerges from hiding, this is an outstanding wine. I had finished most of my 1998 Aussie Shiraz and I found this one just sitting there and begging to be opened. I had a bunch of 375s that are long gone and I had lost track of this one. No blueberry pie filling, unless you spend too much time drinking a blend of fecal notes, cat piss and the dirt in the corral. The tannin is 95%+ resolved into a sweet accompaniment to a cherry/raspberry velvet that crosses the tongue and slides effortlessly towards the throat. The nose is subtle fruit and effortless, with a small bit of violet floral aroma. The only thing that keeps this wine from the exceptional characterization is that the finish was "only" of average length. I wish I had bought more. This is at its peak, or perhaps a year or two short of it, so if you've got 'em, smoke 'em.

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