d'Arenberg The Laughing Magpie Shiraz Viognier 75cl in Chateau Gift Case
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Product Description
An inspired combination, shiraz & viognier carefully blended to produce a wine of true elegance, gift packaged in a luxury chateau gift case. An ideal gift fro someone special. As well as varietal dark fruits and spice, the nose features savoury characters of cooked meats, spices and cracked black pepper. The palate is robust and concentrated with great intensity. The fruit is more expressive on the palate with a touch of raspberry, plum, blackcurrant and blueberry with underlying spice and just a hint of savoury oak. The mineral silky tannins build nicely on the palate and provide good structure and impressive length. The Vintage 2008 is a tale of two vintages for red wines in McLaren Vale. Winter rain ensured the soil reached filled capacity and set the vines up perfectly with healthy balanced canopies. A normal spring and an unseasonably cool January and February meant most vines remained stress free and for early picked parcels flavour ripeness was achieved at reasonably low sugar levels and high natural acidity. However, a sustained heat wave in early March forced frantic picking and resulted in rich ripe characters. The Laughing Magpie is a blend of both the early and late picked parcels and accordingly is balanced with the ripe characters well in check.
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- World renowned, family owned Mclaren Vale winery
- Age old wine making techniques
- High quality, award winning Australian wines
- d'Arenburg
- The Laughing Magpie Shiraz Viognier