It takes patience and passion to age a wine, to ignore its calling and let it mature.
On Friday we opened an aged bottle of D’Arenberg ‘The Derelict Vineyard’ Grenache 2003 (£11.99 when purchased 2 years ago - £13.99 now, Oddbins). It did not take long to decant and let lose a furry of flavours. The best description was that this wine was a very fruity alcoholic sherry that has been made with amontillado sherry. The warmth of the alcohol just stays on the palate and conjures up fantastic memories of Christmas and fruity puddings.
I have always been a huge fan of the D’Arenberg wines and I highly recommend them for ageing – I still have some old vintage of Feral Fox Pinot Noir, and Dead Arm Shiraz waiting to be released.
On Friday we opened an aged bottle of D’Arenberg ‘The Derelict Vineyard’ Grenache 2003 (£11.99 when purchased 2 years ago - £13.99 now, Oddbins). It did not take long to decant and let lose a furry of flavours. The best description was that this wine was a very fruity alcoholic sherry that has been made with amontillado sherry. The warmth of the alcohol just stays on the palate and conjures up fantastic memories of Christmas and fruity puddings.
I have always been a huge fan of the D’Arenberg wines and I highly recommend them for ageing – I still have some old vintage of Feral Fox Pinot Noir, and Dead Arm Shiraz waiting to be released.
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