d'Arenberg The Dead Arm Shiraz McLaren Vale 2019 AFKAT_2025 Three Miyake copper pot stills

Three Miyake copper pot stills with different neck shapes and lyne arm angles produce varied spirit styles under one roof

His approach is stubbornly hands-off: organic fruit from growers he's known for a decade

high in salinity

Aged 16 months in barrels (30% new)

d'Arenberg The Dead Arm Shiraz McLaren Vale 2019 AFKAT_2025 Three Miyake copper pot stillsThe Dead Arm is d'Arenberg's flagship Shiraz, named for a vine disease (eutypa lata) that withers half the vine and concentrates the fruit on what survives. This is McLaren Vale at full intensity, from a fourth generation South Australian estate run by the gleefully eccentric Chester Osborn. The wine is made from ancient, low yielding vines and basket pressed in the old way for a powerful, deeply structured Shiraz. The 2019 is dense and built to age