Monday, August 11, 2008

2006 Glaetzer Shiraz Amon-Ra Barossa Valley


This wine from Barossa is so so powerful, so powerful that it makes you doubt if you can handle all of the fruit, all of that tannin and all of that alcohol. A scary wine, in the bottle, the color (deep purple red, so dark, so much alcohol!), and in the smell. It is so young, and probably not ready to drink.

Drank too fast, as was having with pizza, just filled with blackberries, blueberries, black currant, jammy, tannins, some pepper and oak. They say you need to wait for 4-48(!) hours for this wine, I look forward to opening it for 24 hours before drinking. But personally, this is way too powerful for me and I prefer the Anaperenna, which is more approachable and more well balanced.

The eye corresponds to the "sixth" sense, I would say the "sixth" part is the feel of history in the old vines of this Shiraz from Ben Glaetzer.

Description of wine from official website

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