Glaetzer Wallace Shiraz Grenache 2023
- 93
- $30
- Drink by: 2026-2036
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This is always such a consistent and perfectly crafted, value-for-money red wine out of the Barossa. It’s largely Shiraz with about 16% Grenache. Some of these vines are up to 80 years old in the case of the Shiraz and 100 years old in the case of the Grenache, so this is pretty serious fruit for a wine at this price. The aroma is characterized by bright red fruits with a little glazed cherry, and the palate reveals deeper, richer flavours while still keeping those bright red fruits dominant, consistent with this longer, cooler vintage. It has potential for medium-term aging but really does drink well now.
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.
