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d'Arenberg Shiraz The Dead Arm(2003)

Chester's Tasting Note:

Upon release d’Arenberg’s The Dead Arm Shiraz has a vivid young deep purple colour. The nose shows intense and complex cedary, fig, blackberry and blueberry like smells occasionally pepper/spice smells too.

Vanilla mocha oak smells and attacking blackberry, cassis characters are also evident on the palate. Full, intense sweet, cedary middle palate flavours have a distinctly silky, svelte texture deceptively disguises the rich powerful cassis and toffee-mocha flavours.

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Wine Skinny
July 2005
May 2008
A "wow" wine -- intense without being jammy, with beautiful black currant and blackberry flavors with warm spices, mushroom, white pepper and cigar box accents. Long, complex finish. Ready to drink now and over the next seven or eight years.
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Wine.com
July 2008
One of this estate's flagship wines, the 2003 The Dead Arm Shiraz appears to be better than the 2002. A deeper, richer, fuller-bodied offering that spent time in equal parts French and American oak, it possesses an opaque purple color, great intensity, and a fabulously sweet nose of blackberries, cassis, asphalt, earth, and oak. Powerful, super-concentrated, and obviously fashioned from low yields and old vines, this is a classic McLaren Vale old vine Shiraz that should age nicely for 15+ years.-Wine Advocate
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lambwofur
July 2008
Definitely one of the best Shiraz I have tasted. Elegant yet powerful, full of complexity with an extra long finish.Silky smooth tannin. Taste of raisin, spice, pepper & chocolate.
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jaye
July 2006
Notes are from 375 mil bottle. Nose closed on initial pour. Allowed to sit in Riedel Vinum Shiraz glass for an hour before trying. The only smell coming through first evening was camphor. The taste was not unpleasant, tannins were smooth and the fruit, though evident it was there somewhere -- was clearly hiding. On day two I poured another glass. The nose was definitely more alive with camphor smell replaced by black cherry. The flavor was more complex than day one, and I enjoyed the wine, but to me it didn't warrant the 96 point Parker score, or the other 90+ scores here in CT. I have one more 375 read more...
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Wine Advocate # 161
Oct-05
95/100
April 2008
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