d'Arenberg The Mind Palace Sangiovese
McLaren Vale
Price Range at Release: $30-$49
Vintage: 2022
Alc %: 14.0
$ Rel: 32
You get a lot of quality sangiovese for your dollar in this excellent expression of this Tuscan red variety. Sweet, spicy aromas of dark flowers, dark chocolates, cherries and plums reveal notes of minerals and baked earth. Medium to fullish in weight, it's backed by a fine, drying spine of slatey tannins, extending long and faintly sour-edged towards a lingering finish of dark fruits and fresh acids. Give it plenty of breathing first.
Last Date Tasted: 21/10/2024
Vintage
Score/100
Score/20
Year To Drink
2022
9217.9

2027-2030+

Winery

d'Arenberg
d'Arenberg is surely one of the planet's largest makers of quality grenache-based red wine. Based in McLaren Vale, a region fortuitously blessed with large, ancient vineyards of this southern Rhône variety, this idiosyncratic winery somehow manages to make a wider range of wines each year and keep itself at the cutting edge of labelling anti-puffery (viz. The Noble Wrinkled Riesling et al). d'Arenberg's style is to fashion table wines of complexity and rustic charm. This approach is in evidence across a wide range of varieties and blends, with a strong emphasis on southern Rhône combinations. Other wines, such as the Dead Arm Shiraz and the Coppermine Road Cabernet Sauvignon are rather more McLaren Vale and contemporary, although not entirely lacking in winemaker-derived character and complexity.
Chief Executive(s):
Chester Osborn
Winemaker:
Chester Osborn, Jack Walton
Viticulturist:
Giulio Dimasi
Production Dozen:
260000
Tonnes Processed:
2000 - 3000
Address:
58 Osborn Road , McLaren Vale , South Australia 5171 Australia
Cellar Door Open Hours:
7 days, 10am - 5pm
Principal Wine Region:
McLaren Vale
Telephone:
(08) 8329 4888
Facsimile:
(08) 8323 9862
Website:
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