d'Arenberg The Dead Arm Shiraz McLaren Vale 2019 AFKAT_2025 Each 375ml bottle yields six

Each 375ml bottle yields six cocktails of bartender-quality cocktails without the mixing

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

50% Malvasia 50% Chardonnay

d'Arenberg The Dead Arm Shiraz McLaren Vale 2019 AFKAT_2025 Each 375ml bottle yields sixThe 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