d’Arenberg The Dead Arm Shiraz

A bottle that collectors will chase for decades

a feeling that you can just keep on drinking because it’s so refreshing … yet it doesn’t lack for depth of character

There’s clarity and precision here

muscular tannins let you know you're drinking something serious and elegant

mineral chalkiness that feels like wet stone and cedar under a cedar hedge

More immediately open than many Clos Saint-Denis at this stage

Joel made more of his Ravenswood Blend

Aromas drift toward black cherry skin

ample and intense with notes of brushwood

it unfolds like a great symphony: plush waves of blue and black fruit underpinned by mineral tension and spice

In the glass

and biodynamic rigor practiced at First Growth intensity