The key to understanding the wines of the Adelaidean Mount Lofty Range since the flavours of the other regions relate back to this benchmark. Famed for Shiraz, Cabernet, Grenache and Mataro. Full bodied and intensely favoured reds that stand alone. There are no global comparisons.
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Crayford Barossa Valley Shiraz 2021
Original price was: $14.80.$10.00Current price is: $10.00.We enjoy wines like this Crayford when younger though the wine will hold up well for many years.
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Old Moppa Road Barossa Valley Shiraz 2022
Original price was: $14.50.$7.00Current price is: $7.00.The Barossa Valley is a remarkable wine region to visit. To move from admiring the landscape in the manner of the occasional visitor to having a profound knowledge of the how the landscape evolved (geomorphology) has given me much satisfaction.
I know Old Moppa Road very well. It runs along the western edge of the northern Barossa Valley a location with many old vine vineyards. Alas for this vintage we could not buy grapes from the location we wanted along Old Moppa so moved further north to secure supply.
This vintage was a true Barossa vintage without prolonged hot spells nor unsettling cooler periods. So out of 50 vintages the 2022 would be like about 25 of them. You want to sit with the average not the extremes. Looks good in the glass as I write this note but am wary about long term cellaring.
The wine is rich and deep but all vintages make me cautious as the unexpected can appear as they age, so 10 plus years is not recommended – unless you are happy.
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Oakley Adams Barossa Valley Cabernet Sauvignon 2021
$12.80Barossa Cabernet that changed perceptions. While tradition says the best Cabernet comes from cool climates, Australia proves otherwise—great Cabernet thrives from the Hunter to Clare, and especially the Barossa. The Oakley Adams release captures this fresh identity: bold, elegant, and proof that if the wine tastes good, you’ve found the right place.
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The Green Patch Barossa Valley Shiraz Cabernet Sauvignon 2022
Original price was: $13.80.$8.00Current price is: $8.00.Boutiques now make more wine than they can sell at the high prices they charge. Indeed 50% of the current oversupply is called ‘premium’ for the first time ever. Glug hunts through this surplus to find wines we bottle as ‘One Offs’ like this Green Patch. Now you see them, then they are gone.
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Kitts Creek Barossa Valley Cabernet Sauvignon 2019
Original price was: $15.80.$10.00Current price is: $10.00.Only recently have smart customers again realised how agreeable are warm climate Cabernet wines.
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Oakley Adams Barossa Valley Shiraz 2022
Original price was: $14.10.$7.05Current price is: $7.05.I keep telling the story of the role of wine merchants using Oakley Adams as they did the hard yards. The business was Melbourne based and began in 1871 as importers of wines and spirits. Later they promoted local wines which were bottled as Oakley Adams selections. Selling wine was hard work and did not become part of life of our social life until the post war years.
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Goat Square Barossa Valley Cabernet Sauvignon 2021
Original price was: $15.80.$11.00Current price is: $11.00.Cabernets can shine to reveal a different expression to those of cooler maritime localities.
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Bagot Station Barossa Valley Shiraz Cabernet 2023
Original price was: $13.40.$9.00Current price is: $9.00.Drink this vintage sooner not later as the extraordinary aroma is its great joy.
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Barbarossa Barossa Valley Shiraz Cabernet Durif Mataro 2022
Original price was: $15.80.$10.00Current price is: $10.00.NMD is short for ‘no more details’ and is the game we played with the early releases of the Barbarossa. The name Barbarossa and knowledge that it was 100% Barossa Valley was all customers were told. A real guessing game.
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Kitts Creek Barossa Valley Shiraz 2022
Original price was: $15.80.$10.00Current price is: $10.00.Classic Barossa Shiraz. Full, ripe and generous, just as we like it. Made from fully ripened grapes with light extraction, this 2022 delivers rich flavour now rather than needing long cellaring, showing why Barossa Shiraz remains unmatched for depth and value.
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Wine Makers Individual Barrel Series GH76 WIBS Barossa Valley Cabernet Sauvignon 2022
Original price was: $14.70.$8.95Current price is: $8.95.So here we are with the final single barrel bottling. GH76 being the record keeping number. ’75 was when I began selling wine, a better ending, but we have no GH75 barrel. The WIBS idea has worked so lets celebrate that. The first single barrel was bottled in 2019 being from the 2015 vintage. There have been several dozen since. The alcohol at bottling of GH76 was 15% which indicates why we placed this barrel to one side. Beautiful wine which will keep for years. Good value today.
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Goat Square Barossa Valley Shiraz 2023
Original price was: $15.80.$11.00Current price is: $11.00.The first vintage was the 2003 so this is the nineteenth vintage of a Shiraz we call the ‘Salt of the Earth’. Titled because it delivers a consistent view of Barossa Valley Shiraz each vintage. Past vintages of all Goat Square wines is at glug-wines-winemaker-and-merchant/goat-square/
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Bengalee Barossa Valley Shiraz 2022
Original price was: $16.50.$9.00Current price is: $9.00.The Bengalee left Hamburg with German settlers on 10th July 1838 and arrived in Adelaide on the 19th November, 1838. It is likely a few of these arrivals later found their way to the Barossa Valley becoming part of the fabulous Barossa wine story. We picked up that story in 2008 when we released our first Bengalee Shiraz.
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Bengalee Barossa Valley Grenache 2024
Original price was: $16.50.$10.00Current price is: $10.00.We seek to bring out the serious side of Grenache, a substantial full flavoured expression such as we seek with our Shiraz.
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Glug Reserve Barossa Valley Shiraz 2023
Original price was: $19.50.$12.00Current price is: $12.00.The first Glug reserve was a 2015 being a small parcel just too good to blend away which was bottled in 2017. By then we had learnt how to bottle tiny amounts leading to single barrel bottlings and small amounts. The point of Barossa Shiraz is its unique depth and ripeness. Thus pale, delicate and light has its place as does a wine like this which is the opposite; having an intense depth of ‘sweetness’ along the mid palate a feature that seems to be unique to the Barossa Valley.
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Glug Final Edition Barossa Valley Shiraz 2023
Original price was: $16.50.$10.00Current price is: $10.00.The Barossa Valley has no equal, globally for power and concentration. My reading relates how consumers have changed, “They want lighter, fresher styles designed for modern drinking occasions….with new packaging and clearer, taste-led cues to make the range easier to shop”. Glug recommends the exact opposite as found in the Final Edition.
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Langdorf Barossa Valley Cabernet 2019
Original price was: $16.50.$10.00Current price is: $10.00.The importance of Barossa Valley Cabernet will rise and rise in the decade ahead because consumers are taking note.
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Old Moppa Road Barossa Valley Cabernet Merlot 2019
Original price was: $14.50.$9.00Current price is: $9.00.Cabernet makes firm wines and the tannic toughness can get out of control so blending with the soft, fleshiness of Merlot comes naturally.
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Karrawirra Single Vineyard ‘Fan Block’ Barossa Valley Shiraz 2018
$26.00The pick of the best Barossa end up as Karrawirra Single Vineyard bottlings.
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Old Moppa Road Barossa Valley Cabernet Sauvignon 2022
Original price was: $13.70.$7.00Current price is: $7.00.A full-flavoured Barossa Cabernet in the region’s signature warm-climate style. Rich, generous and built with depth. Unlike cooler-region Cabernets, this wine offers volume and power, with the structure to cellar beautifully over the next decade.
