Teusner Albert Shiraz 2018 South Australia Barossa Valley

Amon-Ra by Ben Glaetzer 2019

Amon-Ra Shiraz is an iconic wine that epitomises Ben Glaetzer’s passion to create wines that are full flavoured, multi layered and intense but still elegant, stylish and finely balanced. Exceptional old vine fruit was sourced from the famed Ebenezer sub district at the northern tip of the Barossa Valley. Vine age 50—130 years old. Yield 2 tonnes per hectare.

Colour: Deep purple in youth, will evolve to a lovely dark red hue with maturation.
Aroma: Blood plum showing hints of dark cherries and dried garden herbs.
Palate: Rich and mouthcoating yet with the balance, finesse and elegance that epitomises Amon-Ra. An earthy spice complements the brooding dark fruit flavours.
Peak Drinking: A wine that will develop beautifully with long term cellaring
through to 2045.

The irrepressible Ben Glaetzer is the driving force behind Glaetzer Wines. Ben graduated in winemaking from Adelaide University in South Australia after working at Barossa Valley Estate during school and university holidays.

After travelling extensively throughout many of the worlds wine regions, Ben returned to the Barossa and joined the family company. Ben’s ability to blend traditional winemaking techniques with a modern flair is reflected in the style of wines under the Glaetzer label. He makes unique, elegant wines with minimal intervention, which are regarded as classics and unmistakably Barossan.

Spinifex La Maline 2013

Fresh fruited in approach, a punnet of blueberries, a punnet of raspberries. Faint sweetness in scent with a sniff of herbs, briar and anise. Silky ride across the palate with pleasing sour-sweet fruit characters, little touch of oiliness pooling in mid palate, gentle coating of mouth as is slides through the lightly salty finish. Finishes clean and puckering with saline acidity licking at the palate. Feels pure, even with a slender curl of dusty, cedary tannin fringing the wine. Fine feel, long, kinda gorgeous!