The Goat is a pure expression of Barossa Shiraz with a light dose of mature oak. The Goat style is to enhance the rich, ripe and complex flavours developed from the fruit and we do not want this clouded or masked with new oak. The wine does though have a lot of extract so stands easily on its own. The first vintage was the 2006 and with the Karrawirra is a staple of Glug.
Goat Square is an historic masterpiece as it was the old centre of Tanunda, Barossa Valley, and survives with three original cottages on the corners of the square with the oldest, the Rieschieck house built in 1850.
This style of wine is what we wanted to do when coming to the Barossa which is let each vintage express itself and to do this we use simple wine making methods.
These can be summed up as pick, ferment in small open fermenters, settle and age for two years in old, oak puncheons. We are careful with over-use of pump-overs which can extract unwanted hard flavours, there is no pre or post soaking and no new oak. For most Barossa vintages the bunches of ripe grapes deliver all the flavour needed as in this 2023.
