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Karrawirra Single Vineyard ‘Fan Block’ Barossa Valley Shiraz 2019
$26.00The pick of the best Barossa end up as Karrawirra Single Vineyard bottlings. Single vineyard wines are not made every vintage and appear only when they are the ultimate expression of the Barossa Valley.
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Kitts Creek Barossa Valley Cabernet Sauvignon 2019
$15.80Only recently have smart customers again realised how agreeable are warm climate Cabernet wines.
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Karrawirra Barossa Valley Cabernet Sauvignon 2018
$16.50The Barossa Valley has a long history with Cabernet though it’s not rated as highly as the Shiraz which is wrong. We made just under 100 cases.
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Cellar Range Clare Valley Cabernet Sauvignon 2022
Original price was: $14.50.$11.00Current price is: $11.00.Back in October we were given our choice of barrels of Clare Valley reds from a five-star rated winery. While they retained the very best to be able to select what we wanted from the rest we knew was a rare honour.
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Crayford Barossa Valley Shiraz Durif 2022
Original price was: $14.80.$8.00Current price is: $8.00.What varieties can be used to make wines that create a taste that carries the global badge ‘made in Australia’. Shiraz for sure as it takes on another dimension in our warm regions. Of the many hundreds of other varieties it is work in motion though a Glug favourite for stardom is Durif.
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Fareham Estates Clare Valley Cabernet Sauvignon 2022
Original price was: $15.60.$10.00Current price is: $10.00.A big rich, juicy Cabernet, minty, intense flavours, being part of the ‘five star red haul’ we stumbled across in mid-2024. Five stars being the winery rating of the wine writer James Halliday. Halliday published ‘Clare Valley-the history the vignerons and the wines’, in 1985. He devotes a section to Fareham Estate which was founded in 1966.
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Glug ‘Sunday Drive’ Adelaide Hills Shiraz 2023
Original price was: $14.60.$7.00Current price is: $7.00.Adelaide Hills vineyards are small and variable. A bit of good ground here and a further tiny parcel over the hill crest. Pocket handkerchief vineyards. Less common is exposure to the summer heat which ripens Shiraz and this ‘Sunday Drive’ we found irresistible and so purchased from a small garagiste maker. Cool climate though in the style of Eden Valley.
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Goat Square ‘Ziegenmarkt’ Reserve Barossa Valley Cabernet Sauvignon 2019
$18.50As the Australian palate has matured so the interest has grown for the warmer, fuller richer styles of Cabernet.
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Parawatta Eden Valley Riesling 2022
$14.80If Riesling has its type location in Germany and Austria we next have to ask why Riesling can make such a superlative wine in faraway Australia. Let us just enjoy that these wonderful tastes exist and thank the versatility of Riesling.
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Oakley Adams McLaren Vale Shiraz 2020
$12.60McLaren Vale is a sea-side location as it fronts St Vincent Gulf.
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Glug ‘The Long Shot’ Barossa Valley Primitivo Shiraz 2023
$13.70This is a red you will enjoy being a blend of the Italian variety Primitivo with our local favourite Shiraz. Shiraz is the outstanding variety for Australia and rises to heights that eclipse any other Global region. The blend with Primitive works as this variety also responds to our local summer heat. A pleasing addition to the Glug portfolio.
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Glug ‘Broken Slate’ Clare Valley Cabernet Sauvignon 2020
$14.70Combine this with the elevation of the Clare wine district and add in weather that brings the heat of the inland south, and you have a mix of elements ripening the grapes that creates unusual and magnificent flavours. In this way the Cabernet has a minty Clare twist to the flavour and a depth of colour like no other Cabernet region.
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Vine to Glass Barossa Valley Grenache 2023
$14.70Grenache has been promoted by Glug since our start, part of our mission, and samples now being offered to us have moved from curios to wines rivalling the best made anywhere around the Globe.
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P. B. Burgoyne Eden Valley Shiraz 2022
$13.60There are some fabulous vineyard clusters and those developed by the Henschke family at Keyneton illustrate the wine quality that can be achieved. The origin of the Burgoyne Shiraz is from the low Eden Valley where the reds are plumper than the far cooler high Eden. Still the low parts of the Eden Valley are one hundred or more metres higher than the Barossa Valley so expect a Shiraz that highlights different flavour aspects.
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The Regions Barossa Valley Cabernet Sauvignon 2021
$13.80The reason there are so many Glug brands is because we prefer to bottle each wine to preserve the difference, however tiny. Overriding all of the small differences is the flavour of the Barossa Valley and the Glug style which favours full flavours. Expect from us a red over 14% alcohol as we are not excited by the flavours of low alcohol reds.
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Terrene Estates South Australia Shiraz Cabernet 2022
$10.60This blend of the two most popular red varieties in Australia dates back a long way, perhaps to the 1930s.
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Goat Square Barossa Valley Grenache Mataro Rosé 2024
$14.50There is a textural quality to these Rosés, the result of course of the varieties, that pushes them to a level beyond the fresh, pink coloured Rosés made like a white wine from cool regions. The very best of Provence might just draw close to this Goat Square.
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Old Moppa Road Barossa Valley Shiraz 2022
Original price was: $14.50.$10.00Current price is: $10.00.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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Stockwell Creek Basket Pressed Barossa Valley Cabernet Sauvignon 2021
$22.50This Stockwell Creek is a slice of our best Cabernet batches from a vintage that Glug ranks as 10/10. Barossa Cabernets can age well and if you have a cool spot, it will be worth placing a case aside.
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Old Moppa Road Barossa Valley Durif Shiraz 2022
Original price was: $14.50.$10.00Current price is: $10.00.My taste for Durif commenced in the late 1970s with trips to Rutherglen where it has historical connections from 1908. No other region grew the variety though later I discovered it was growing at Griffith in the Murray Basin. The climate of Australia is different to Europe, the source of our vine cuttings, and what varieties suit Australia has yet to be decided so I have a hunch Durif will be a big part of our future. This is the variety that should be used to bolster up other varieties when the vintage leaves them weak on flavour.
From 2004 we developed a feel of what we wished to achieve in the Barossa Valley the idea being to work with Shiraz Mataro and Grenache. Durif though was a background thought and circumstances allowed us to begin working with Durif by 2005. Not much was planted yet over the years has expanded. Initially we saw it as a blending option and from 2015 began to think it was worth promoting as a single variety. Good enough for Rutherglen then good enough for the Barossa Valley.
The elevation of the Barossa Valley is 200 to 300 metres while Rutherglen is 175 metres and the two districts are closer than the distant apart and geography would suggest. The final blend was with the natural partner Shiraz since the Barossa makes such high quality Shiraz.
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