At the London Wine Competition d’Arenberg have taken out the following;
· Wine of The Year – 2017 The Dead Arm Shiraz (scoring 97 points).
· Best Wine By Quality – 2017 The Dead Arm Shiraz
· Winery of The Year – d’Arenberg, McLaren Vale.
This year’s competition saw 1,000 entries from more than 43 countries. There were 198 wines from Australia that this scooped the pool for.
The Dead Arm – Shiraz 2017 McLaren Vale, Shiraz (100%) won the best wine of the year scoring 97 points at the 2020 London Wine Competition.
Australian winemaker Chester Osborn, the man behind the d’Arenberg The Dead Arm Shiraz which got the top score at the 2020 London Wine Competition.
This year’s competition saw about 1000 entries from more than 43 countries which also included new wine-producing countries like India.
The top 5 varieties that were in the competition were Shiraz, Cabernet Sauvignon (121), Chardonnay (97), Merlot (70) and Sauvignon Blanc (63).
There were 198 wines from Australia, 126 from Italy, 124 from France, 101 from Spain making them the top 4 countries that entered in the 2020 London Wine Competition.
The biggest improvement in the score by country was in the United States which had the highest average score by country followed by France.
Here are the highlights of the 2020 London Wine Competition.
· Wine Of The Year – The Dead Arm Shiraz 2017, Australia, McLaren Vale
· Winery Of The Year – d’Arenberg, Australia, McLaren Vale
· Best Wine By Quality – The Dead Arm Shiraz 2017, Australia, McLaren Vale
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The Dead Arm – Shiraz 2017 McLaren Vale, Shiraz (100%) won the best wine of the year scoring 97 points. The results of the third London Wine Competition show a resounding success for Australia as the country offers more quality for the money. The awards were introduced to represent how consumers buy wines, based not just on their quality, but what they look like on the shelf, and what value for money they offer.
This wine will have you second-guessing as it skips between red fruits and lifted spice notes on the one hand to more brooding, dark, ashen, earthy aromas on the other. A sign of the vintage no doubt. The seasonal conditions are even more evident on the palate where flavour, tannin and acid are in perfect balance. There is an impressive amount of concentration in this wine but at the same time, it feels somewhat more restrained compared to other more in your face, rustic Dead Arm vintages. Particularly when we look at the tannin profile which is a relatively fine example for this wine.
More information from The London Wine Competition.