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D'Arenberg Shiraz-Viognier Mclaren Vale The Laughing Magpie 2003

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Winery:
d'Arenberg Wines Pty
Varietal:
Viognier
Region:
Australia
Type:
Red Wine
Drink Dates:
Drink Now - 2010
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User Tags:  spices, berry, fruit, pepper, color descriptors, bramble fruits, floral, blackberry, big, spicy 


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Viognier is one of the great grapes of France's Rhone Valley. It is an extremely aromatic variety redolent of ripe peaches and wild flowers. It is frequently used to add aromatic complexity to blended wines but on its own, delivers a rich, soft wine with high alcohol and deep flavors of honey, peach, apricot and tangerine.

Winemakers Notes

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.

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Enchanting aromatics include floral and peach, introducing voluptuous black cherry and berry fruit layered with anise and clove and toast. Pretty acidity throughout. Ready to drink now and over the next four or five years.


 

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Snooth User: ProfPayne
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Beautiful acidity, but not bracing at all. Blueberry, spice, cassis on the palate - stone fruits and floral aromas on the nose. I picked this up for $16.99 in Indiana. What a great deal!


September 2009

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Great dark color. Coats palate with dark fruit flavors. Well balanced, highly recommend.


February 2008

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Source: JJ Buckley
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...an impressive red offering an exotic nose of lychee nuts, honeysuckle, apricot marmalade, blackberries, and cassis. Expressive, full-bodied, and soft, but more superficial than usual... Robert Parker. A Proprietary Blend wine from South Australia in Australia. 2003 Arenberg, D The Laughing Magpie Shiraz / Viognier 1500ml


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Highly recommend


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Snooth User: bc3
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superb value at $19 at costco. Big, fun, tasty, though still needs some time


April 2008

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