(2014) 14.5% abv for this GSM blend from McLaren Vale favourites, d'Arenberg. Big and full-on nose, the crunch and jamminess of the Grenache fruit singing through, and backed up with an earthiness and spice, plenty of chocolaty depth. A touch of bacon rind and roasted meat. The palate has superb sweet fruit, flooded with juicy bramble and blackcurrant, an edge of meatiness again, with marvellous sweetness and joyous, floating top notes of flavour into a long, precise finish. Very refined tannins, natural feeling acidity in a crowd-pleasing and high quality wine.