d’Arenberg The Dead Arm 2006

75cl bottle.

A mature example of this iconic wine. I worked for Oddbins who originally brought these exciting wines to the UK and these earlier vintages were extraordinary.

The name for this wine is often joked about. Some thought the wine to be so big and heavy that your arm hardly worked after consuming a reasonable amount.

Dead Arm is a vine disease caused by the fungus Eutypa Lata that randomly affects vineyards all over the world. Often vines affected are severely pruned or replanted. One half, or an ‘arm’ of the vine slowly becomes reduced to dead wood. That side may be lifeless and brittle, but the grapes on the other side, while low yielding, display amazing intensity.