D'Arenberg The CUSTODIAN Grenache McLaren Vale Australia
Name:
D'Arenberg The CUSTODIAN Grenache McLaren Vale Australia - 2001
Where it's from:
>Australia
>South Australia
>McLaren Vale
Price per case:
£116.28
Bottle size:
75 cl
Bottles per case:
12
Style:
Powerful Reds
Grapes:
Grenache
Description:
Chester D'Arenberg Osborne is an unconventional wine maker. This Grenache is a great example of his very individual wines. Earthy, tastes of plums and cinnamon with velvety rich oak hints.
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In its youth, d'Arenberg's Ironstone Pressings has a deep, dark, plum purple colour matched by just as intense black cherry, dark chocolate, liquorice, tobacco, mixed spice and brooding ripe blackberry aromas. Mulberry, ripe plum and fresh pepper spice dominate the rich full-bodied palate before a long, intense, rolling, dark bitter cherry tannin finish. After quite some time in bottle the intense colour, fruit aromas and dusty, gripping tannins tone down, the colour moving towards brown ruby red. Eventually the Grenache and Shiraz blossom as rich, sweet, violet like scents, with spicy, cedary and tobacco based aromas before malty sweet dark chocolate flavours and crunchy, chewy textured black olive, spicy ginger and long fleshy textures. The hallmark of vigorous, fine piquant tannin and acidity continue to reside with The Ironstone Pressings after quite some considerable time, as have previous vintages since the late 1950's. (6 x 75 cl)