dArenberg Custodian Grenache
$2199each
$263DOZEN
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Fruit Grenache
Regions McLaren Vale
  South Australia
Each $21.99
$263.00
Available by the dozen
d'Arenberg own and manage nearly a third of all the old Grenache bush vines in McLaren Vale. The very first instalment by d'Arenberg to display the famous red stripe was a Grenache wine, it has been a variety central to the estate portfolio ever since. During the 1980s, d'Arenberg resisted taking part in the great government sanctioned vine pull out scheme which proved to be disastrously short sighted and an assault on national treasure. Their faith in the wizzened old vines of McLaren Vale has bestowed upon d'Arenberg the accolade of Custodian.
The finest small batch Grenache parcels are passed through a gentle Demoisy crusher, leaving many of the berries whole. Fruit is transferred to open fermenters where seeds and skins are permanently submerged beneath the free run juice. When tannin extraction is just right, Custodian is basket pressed and transferred to a mix of seasoned and new French and American oak barriques for completion of ferments and a course of malolactic. Components are matured nine months on lees to slow the ageing and keep the wine fresher while also reducing influence of oak. Chester and the team undertake an extensive barrel tasting to determine the final assemblage, to be bottled without fining or filtration.
TASTING NOTES
Intensely coloured, cherry red hue. Black forest berries, woody spices and soil like notes slowly give way to brighter undertones of raspberry, blueberry and florals. The palate tells a slightly different story with a raft of red fruit characters such as raspberry and stewed rhubarb paired with an almost cranberry like acidity. The tannins are verging on gritty, in a tantalizing sense.
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  Each $70.99
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Regions McLaren Vale
  South Australia
  Each $21.99
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  Each $21.99
  $263.00
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Regions McLaren Vale
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  Each $74.99
  $899.00
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Regions McLaren Vale
  South Australia
  Each $31.99
  $383.00
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Regions McLaren Vale
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  Each $21.99
  $263.00
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  Each $22.99
  $275.00
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Regions McLaren, Adelaide Hills
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  Each $32.99
  $395.00
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Regions McLaren Vale
  South Australia
  Each $19.99
  $239.00
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Regions McLaren Vale
  South Australia
  Each $21.99
  $263.00
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Regions McLaren Vale
  South Australia
  Each $72.99
  $875.00
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Regions McLaren Vale
  South Australia
  Each $31.99
  $383.00
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Regions McLaren Vale
  South Australia
  Each $21.99
  $263.00
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  Each $19.99
  $239.00
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Regions McLaren Vale
  South Australia
  Each $30.99
  $371.00
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Regions McLaren Vale
  South Australia
  Each $33.99
  $407.00
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  Each $30.99
  $371.00
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Regions McLaren Vale
  South Australia
  Each $31.99
  $383.00
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More About dArenberg Wines
The heart of McLaren Vale, past and present, d’Arenberg is one of the most significant wineries in Australia
In 1912 Joseph Osborn, a teetotaller and director of Thomas Hardy and Sons, purchased the well established Milton Vineyards of 25 hectares in the hills just north of the townships of Gloucester and Bellevue, now known as McLaren Vale. Joseph’s son Francis Ernest (‘Frank’) Osborn left medical school, choosing to forsake the scalpel for pruning shears. He soon increased the size of the vineyard to 78 hectares. Fruit was sold to local wineries until the construction of his own cellars was completed in 1928. Dry red table and fortified wines were produced in ever increasing quantities to supply the expanding markets of Europe. dArenberg»