Vintage Fortified Shiraz
⏳ Drikkevindue
2024 - 2040
🍽️ Mad & Vin-match
Blue cheese, dark chocolate desserts, roasted nuts
✨ Tekniske specifikationer
In the early to mid-20th century, Australia's wine industry was dominated by the production of fortified 'port-style' wines, and d'Arenberg was at the forefront of this tradition in McLaren Vale. The Vintage Fortified Shiraz is a liquid bridge to this golden era, crafted using highly traditional methods that have remained unchanged for generations. Hand-harvested Shiraz grapes from ancient, low-yielding McLaren Vale vines are gently foot-tred in open-top concrete fermenters. Before fermentation is complete, the wine is fortified with high-quality grape spirit, arresting fermentation to preserve the natural grape sugars. It is then pressed in the estate's historic basket presses and matured in seasoned oak casks. This process yields a fortified wine of immense power, complexity, and longevity, boasting rich notes of dark plum, licorice, warming spices, and savory earthiness.
🍾 Om vinhuset / producenten
d'Arenberg blev grundlagt i 1912 af Joseph Osborn og har siden udviklet sig til en af McLaren Vales mest ikoniske og traditionsrige familieejede vingårde i South Australia. Under ledelse af fjerdegenerations-vinmageren Chester Osborn arbejder vinhuset kompromisløst efter bæredygtige og traditionelle metoder, herunder certificeret økologisk og biodynamisk vindyrkning, fodtrædning af druerne samt kurvepresning. Vingården er berømt for sine finurlige vinenavne og den karakteristiske røde stribe på etiketten, og porteføljen spænder over en bred vifte af udtryksfulde vine med særligt fokus på Rhône-sorter, gamle Grenache-stokke og kraftfuld Shiraz. Signaturvine som 'The Dead Arm Shiraz' og 'The Ironstone Pressings' regnes i dag for absolutte milepæle, der forener regional dybde, kompleksitet og et fremragende lagringspotentiale.
🍇 Grape Varieties
Shiraz
🍷 Alkoholprocent (ABV)
18-20%