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Region
Adelaide Hills, South Australia
Variety
Tempranillo
Grenache
Souzao
Tasting Notes
Very loud flowers and ripe, dried herbs are detected in the exotic aroma, along with a wide
array of fruits – cherries, cranberries, mulberries, plums, boysenberries and blackberries.
Also showing is a warm, rich, earth character leading into forest floor.
The palate is immediately fruity with all sorts of red and blackberries, lots of dark cherries,
boysenberries and a seam of violets working through. It is rich and juicy with lively, gritty
tannins. A very long earth and dried herb end with a twist of liquorice and blackberry
completes the finish. This is a big wine built for the long haul. Recommended to be cellared
for many years. Background
The inspiration behind this name came from the age-old proverb ‘sticks and stones
may break my bones but names will never hurt me.’ The unusual and quirky names
that d’Arenberg’s range of wines have has never done the winery any harm. We also
do use sticks (vine cuttings) planted into stony soils to produce the grapes that result
in this wine.
Accolades
2004
Stephen Tanzer's International Wine Cellar
Jul/Aug 2006
91 pts
2003
Robert Parker's The Wine Advocate
Issue 161
91 pts
2002
Robert Parker's The Wine Advocate
October 2004/Issue 155
93 pts
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