Glug is a boutique winemaker yet unusually has the strong belief that making good, day to day wines is as important as striving to making the best wines we can from the best fruit. We were around when the large makers used their enormous in-house expertise to make impressive budget wines like the Jacobs Creek Shiraz Malbec Cabernet of 1973 and the Penfolds Koonunga Hill Shiraz Cabernet of 1976.
Glug winemakers have been fascinated with Durif for many decades and many of the first Glug wines had a tiny component of Durif as he could learn about the character of this remarkable variety. This in turn led to the first Brutus Shiraz Durif from the 2009 vintage which was about 50%-50%. From this experience he then made the first Smithy also from 2009.
Soon the new Brutus will be released and as this style has evolved so has the Smithy though like many Glug wines the Smithy does not appear every vintage.
