Glaetzer Wallace Red Blend

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91+ Pts (Robert Parker, James Suckling, James Halliday)

Typically $25/bottle from Glaetzer Wines
Vintage 2018 from Barossa Valley (South Australia)
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About Glaetzer Wines: “After 30 years of winemaking, Colin Glaetzer established the family winery to create limited quantities of super premium Barossa Valley red wines. Today Colin’s son Ben makes unique and elegant wines which are regarded as classics and unmistakably Barossan.”

The Barossa Valley

TASTING NOTES: “The 2018 Wallace Shiraz-Grenache is a 72-28 blend, offering hints of cola and plum on the nose, backed by brighter raspberry and strawberry notes. It’s medium to full-bodied and framed by silky, fine-grained tannins, with a long mouthwatering finish that hints at mocha and wood spice.“ (AbV 14.5%)

VARIETALS: 72% Shiraz, 28% Grenache

BARRELS: The Shiraz spent 16 months in 80% French, 20% American oak. The Grenache was un-oaked.

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THAT REMINDS ME OF: Barossa Valley.

Bit of an interesting place. You think of an Australian, you think those wild people with the sort of but not really British accents. You think back to the whole “was once a British penal colony” factoid that everybody knows and likes to bring up. You might think of the Aborigines tribes, too, considering they were there first. In particular, the Peramangk people occupied the land that would become Barossa Valley.

BUT, did you know that there were a significant number of German settlers in Southern Australia? Throughout the 1800’s, groups of German immigrants from Prussia would come in through Adelaide, including German wine growers. They were the ones to establish the Barossa Valley as a key wine region early in Australia’s history of wine-growing.

The primary grape planted? Shiraz! What do we have today? Shiraz!

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