The Love Grass | d’Arenberg | Shiraz | McLaren Vale | Australia
$15.75
$18.9
Description Grown on very old bush vines, d’Arenberg is one of the only estates in Australia still to use the backbreaking basket press. This gentler method of extraction extracts less of the bitter, rougher phenolics from the grapes. But that’s not all, they also foot tread all their red wines during the ferment for optimum control over extraction. They believe the quality of the results makes these incredibly labour-intensive processes’ worthwhile. They certainly don’t make things easy for themselves… Lovegrass is a weed that grows in the vineyards and its sticky flowers affectionately attach themselves to vineyard workers’ socks. This Shiraz will linger with you in the same way that the flowers do! It all begins with red and black jubes. Pepper and spice notes sing in the glass – the wine evolves and tells us more as we swirl. Some mulberry. Earthy nuances persist through the wine, as an ode to the Organic and Biodynamic principles followed in the winery. Ash, tar, sooty notes. Course tannins will settle with time, enough there for the next 15 years, easily.
