d’ARENBERG THE FOOTBOLT SHIRAZ 2017 MAGNUM 1.5 LITRE

Gold Medal & 95/100 – McLaren Vale Wine Show 2019
Gold Medal – China Wine & Spirits Awards 2019

Named after a racehorse and from a thoroughbred winery, the 2017 Footbolt Shiraz should gallop out the door. It's just one of those great drinking, come home to kind of wines that offers plenty of happy drinking and even more bang for your buck especially in this impressive 1500ml magnum. 2017 was an excellent vintage in the McLaren Vale.

A consistently great McLaren Vale Shiraz. Generously rich with amazing fruit weight and balanced, chewy tanins. Brimming with ripe red fruits and an underlying layer of subtle oak, as well as a hint of pepper. This wine represents great value, and has a long life ahead of it… If you can resist!
Dan Murphy’s in Australia said…“A welcome back from the wilderness for this great label! This is the best looking Footbolt in some years…”

Winery notes (2017 Vintage)
"Joseph Osborn was a successful racehorse owner and Footbolt was the pride of his stable. In 1912 he made the hard decision to sell his horses to purchase the d'Arenberg property.

A consistently great McLaren Vale Shiraz. Generously rich with amazing fruit weight and balanced, chewy tannins. Brimming with ripe red fruits and an underlying layer of subtle oak, as well as a hint of pepper. This wine represents great value, and has a long life ahead of it… If you can resist!"

93/100 Nick Stock, JamesSuckling.com, June 2019 (2017 Vintage)
“Blackberry and blueberry with graphite aromas follow through to a full body, round and velvety tannins and a polished finish. Compact and fine-grained.”

89/100 Campbell Mattinson, The Wine Front, April 2019 (2017 Vintage)
"Intensity of flavour is good, as is associated volume. It delivers of mouthful of blackberry, plum and red licorice flavour. The finish is chewy and a little stumbly but with such momentum through the palate it’s fair to judge that the wine gets away with it. It offers good value and drinking."