d'Arenberg The Laughing Magpie Shiraz Viognier McLaren Vale 2019 CS20230828 It's rustic in the best

It's rustic in the best sense — built for the table and for a few years in the cellar

it offers sophistication now yet will flourish for decades

inky color

in a small glass

savory complexity that only patient cellaring delivers

d'Arenberg The Laughing Magpie Shiraz Viognier McLaren Vale 2019 CS20230828 It's rustic in the bestThe 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