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d'Arenberg Laughing Magpie Shiraz Viognier(1999)
- Winery:
- d'Arenberg Wines Pty
- Varietal:
- Syrah Blend
- Region:
- Australia > South Australia > Mclaren Vale
- Type:
- Red Wine
- User Tags:
- white grape, viognier, red grape, syrah, fruit, blackberry, fine, midpalate, oily, character
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June 2007
- Upon release d'Arenberg's The Laughing Magpie Shiraz Viognier has a vivid dark purple colour. The Viognier adds fragrance and the perfume of flowers, nectarines, ginger and herbs, serving to enhance the very ripe spectrum of the Shiraz, namely blackberry, blueberry and boysenberry. These same characters are also evident on the palate and prevail with a smooth glycerol impact, following through to the mid palate with fruity tannin. The structure has an accent on fine structure and a gritty long fruit tannin. After time in bottle the d'Arenberg's Laughing Magpie Shiraz read more...
