The Story Behind The Name
The very first wine to bear the famous red stripe contained 50% Grenache, since that day it has been a variety central to d’Arenberg. The d’Arenberg portfolio now contains eight wines with a component of this stunning and charismatic red grape.
The Characteristics
The appearance of this wine is excellent with intense colours and a soft cherry red hue. The aromas are complex and seductive, dominated with an evolving mix of deep red scented fruits, white and green peppers, floral spices and earthy pot-pouri like notes.
The palate is medium bodied and fleshy with a concentrated array of red berries, dark sweet plums and baked olive notes developing towards the spicy savoury spectrum as it opens. Fruit sweetness takes hold midway through the palate and then explodes towards the finish with lively, ripe, gritty, fragrant tannins and very fine elevated acidity that lingers on past the finish of this wine.
This wine is a wonderful drink now, and due to the superb balance of fruit weight and concentration, chalky gritty tannins and natural acidity it will develop for up to a decade.
The Winemaking
Each parcel of fruit selected by Chief Winemaker Chester Osborn is gently crushed in our Demoisy open-mouth, rubber-tooth crusher, leaving many berries whole.
They are then transferred to open fermenters where the seeds and skins are permanently submerged beneath the free run juice via heading down boards. The must receives no plunging or pumping over while fermentation occurs.
Once the primary fermentation is two-thirds complete, traditional foot-treading takes place prior to basket-pressing.
The Custodian is aged in a mixture of new and old American and French Oak and casks.
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