d'Arenberg The Laughing Magpie Shiraz Viognier McLaren Vale 2019 040926OFFER and increasingly impossible to find

and increasingly impossible to find

It has a strong and acidic palate

A project wholly owned and run by four women set on making a Gin that exemplifies the California lifestyle

grainy tannins and juicy uplift

The 2022 balances creamy richness with electric acidity

d'Arenberg The Laughing Magpie Shiraz Viognier McLaren Vale 2019 040926OFFER and increasingly impossible to findThe 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