Barossa Valley Shiraz is defined by the region’s warm climate, which concentrates flavour and creates wines of richness and mid-palate weight. The 2022 vintage continues this tradition, delivering a generous, full-flavoured Shiraz that reflects the distinctive power of the Barossa.
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Crayford Barossa Valley Shiraz Durif 2022
Original price was: $14.80.$9.00Current price is: $9.00.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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Mount Eagle Eden Valley Cabernet Syrah 2022
Original price was: $14.10.$8.00Current price is: $8.00.The best way I can describe this Mount Eagle is to appreciate that the medium density, the result of the location, displays a range of flavours, perhaps fragrant, which tend to be masked in wines from the adjoining Barossa Valley.
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The Green Patch Barossa Valley Shiraz Cabernet Sauvignon 2022
Original price was: $13.80.$10.00Current price is: $10.00.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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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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Cellar Range Clare Valley Cabernet Sauvignon 2022
$14.50Back 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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Hopcroft & Cornock McLaren Vale Grenache Shiraz Mataro 2022
Original price was: $13.80.$9.00Current price is: $9.00.Sourced from surplus barrels of a post-1990s McLaren Vale winemaker, this Grenache Shiraz Mataro 2022 has been matured in large, seasoned oak and bottled when at its finest, offering a rich, balanced expression of the original wine.
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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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The Regions McLaren Vale Shiraz 2022
Original price was: $14.50.$9.00Current price is: $9.00.McLaren Vale Shiraz shaped by the cooling influence of the nearby ocean, where maritime freshness meets inland heat. The 2022 vintage delivers a rich, powerful style at 15.3% alcohol. A big wine that shows why McLaren Vale stands alongside Australia’s great coastal regions.
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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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Fareham Estate Clare Valley Shiraz 2022
$15.40There is something about the geography of the Clare Valley and how this reacts with the climate that finds its way into the Shiraz and Cabernet. They bring to the glass an additional and unusual fragrance, a minty delicacy, which is quite thrilling.
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Karrawirra Barossa Valley Cabernet Sauvignon 2022
Original price was: $16.50.$11.00Current price is: $11.00.The 15th vintage of Karrawirra reds. One certainty of life is the ever-changing weather, so no two vintages are the same. Antarctica is the great creator of the Earth’s weather and winemakers along the Southern edge see this every vintage. Though Barossa grapes always get ripe though the time varies.
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Bengalee Barossa Valley Shiraz 2022
Original price was: $16.50.$10.00Current price is: $10.00.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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GH63 WIBS Winemakers Individual Barrel Selection Barossa Valley Cabernet Sauvignon 2022 15%
Original price was: $14.50.$8.95Current price is: $8.95.Selected from a standout barrel set aside by the winemaker, this bottling shows the powerful side of Barossa Cabernet. Treated in the same way as Shiraz, the result is a wine that is Barossa first and Cabernet second. Rich, full and a reminder that this variety thrives just as impressively in warmer districts.
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The Regions Clare Valley Shiraz 2022
Original price was: $13.60.$9.00Current price is: $9.00.Please return to the Clare Valley as the wine flavours are magnificent. Its Way up North yet the wines have intriguing cool climate minty flavours simply delicious. Another district that will one day have global fame. What Australia has that other continents do not is a sudden burst of hot weather that puts the ‘icing’ on the flavours.
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Karrawirra Barossa Valley Shiraz 2022
Original price was: $16.50.$11.00Current price is: $11.00.As customers are aware Glug favours later picking. It is possible in many vintages to leave the grapes hanging for much longer though you need a customer base to support the sales of these more extreme ripe styles.
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Oakley Adams Barossa Valley Shiraz 2022
Original price was: $14.10.$8.00Current price is: $8.00.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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Stockwell Creek Barossa Valley Cabernet Sauvignon 2022
Original price was: $22.50.$11.00Current price is: $11.00.A rich, full-bodied Barossa Cabernet showing the region’s distinctive ripe style. Powerful yet balanced, it delivers the depth of flavour and generosity that set Barossa Cabernet apart from cooler-climate expressions.
