d'Arenberg The Laughing Magpie Shiraz Viognier McLaren Vale 2019 CS20230828 Distant oily smoke

Distant oily smoke

working in a transparent

it offers sophistication now yet will flourish for decades

Latin for ‘one hundred herbs’

married to a coastal California freshness and lift

d'Arenberg The Laughing Magpie Shiraz Viognier McLaren Vale 2019 CS20230828 Distant oily smokeThe Laughing Magpie takes the classic Northern Rhone trick of co fermenting Shiraz with a splash of Viognier, a nod to Cote Rotie, and applies it to McLaren Vale fruit. It's mostly Shiraz (around 94%) with the Viognier lifting the aromatics and adding silk. d'Arenberg is a fourth generation South Australian estate run by the inventive Chester Osborn, who favors old vines and traditional basket pressing. The 2019 is darkly perfumed and savory, with