Glaetzer Bishop Shiraz 2023
- 94
- $40
- Drink by: 2026-2041
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This is a highly distinctive Shiraz from the Ebenezer sub-region of the Northern Barossa Valley. The vines are between 35 and 120 years old, so once again, as with these Glaetzer wines, some serious, deeply intense fruit has gone into the wine. The aroma is intense, with plum and blackberry combinations working alongside a little spicy pepperiness and a faint ironstone character. The palate retains energy and vibrancy with deeper, darker fruits, a little dollop of chocolate emerging before carrying through to a very long finish. You’re getting a serious bang for your buck with a wine like this, which can cellar for up to 15 years and won’t cost the earth.
Ray Jordan has been writing about wine for more than 40 years. His first articles were published in the early issues of national wine magazine Winestate in the late 1970s when he worked in Sydney as a newspaper correspondent. From 1989 Ray wrote more than 3000 columns as a regular newspaper wine columnist. He currently writes a regular column for the special business publication Business News and is one of the main contributors to national wine platform Wine Pilot. In 2017 Ray co-authored The Way it Was – A History of The Early Days of the Margaret River Wine Industry and previously wrote Wine in the Blood: Australia’s Family Wine Estates, published in Mandarin and English. In 2011 Ray was awarded WA Wine Press Club Jack Mann Memorial Medal for his contribution to the WA wine industry. His love of wine is as strong as his love of the blues and tasting the thousands of wines that cross his bench each year allows him to indulge in both.
