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• Ridgerunner Likes this wine: 94 points

  March 22, 2024 - likely should still decant for 90 minutes. This is an incredible wine right in its prime.

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• Duncan H wrote: 89 points

  March 15, 2024 - 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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• IndyTom Likes this wine: 90 points

  February 8, 2024 - 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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• Joelene wrote: 91 points

  February 6, 2024 - Still drinking nicely

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• J @ y H @ c k Likes this wine: 93 points

  February 3, 2024 - 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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Wine Definition

• Vintage 2003
• 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, 9311832391008

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• Pending Delivery 24 (1%)
• In Cellars 1,776 (47%)
• Consumed 1,984 (52%)

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