Wine Review - 2007 d'Arenberg d'Arry's Original Shiraz Grenache: Ok so we got a great deal but we didn't steal it
So we happened to see this one on a sale table at the NSLC in Mill Cove, Bedford. It has a pretty remarkable discount on it being down from $28 to $19. So, we felt like this made it into our pricing wheelhouse and a purchase was made. The d'Arenberg Winery in Australia just turned 100 years old and so we felt it fitting to drinking this wine on almost the exact centenary. When we smelled the wine, it definitely had a smell that indicated something closer to the original price. It was a fuller nose and we did decant this for a few minutes before drinking but it did open up a lot more after 30 minutes. The visuals on the wine were unremarkable which is to say, it looked like a medium bodied red which it turned out to be. As we mentioned the nose had a layer of complexity we like with a lot of dark fruit and smoky undertones. It smelled like a $28 bottle of wine. That sensibility carried over to the taste where there was that layer of complexity associated with the nose...