2011 Glaetzer Shiraz Amon-Ra Barossa Valley

Community Tasting Notes (13) Avg Score: 91.5 points

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  3/25/2023 - Blauweiss Likes this wine: 92 Points

  Not a shy wine, but also beautifully balanced. Great fruit, acidity and tannin, now mature and rich, lovely.

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  3/14/2023 - bpatoc Likes this wine: 92 Points

  Drinking really well right now. Still has some tannin structure, but I wouldn’t hold for much longer. Dark fruits, leather, cedar, vanilla. Beautiful expression of Barossa Valley.

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  3/23/2022 - mrgarreth Likes this wine: 93 Points

  There is so much going on here but it works together like an orchestra. Blackberry, blackcurrant, black cherry and plum, cooked fruits, clove, vanilla, cedar, porty, sage, dark chocolate, leather, tobacco, charred wood, prune, raisin, fruit cake, cherry jam... There are big, ripe tannins. Plenty of acidity to keep it fresh. And a finish that goes on and on. It is a great big smoky wine. Amarone-like levels of alcohol.

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  1/27/2022 - forceberry wrote: 90 Points

  100% old-vine Shiraz from 50-130 yo vineyards in the Ebenezer sub-district. Fermented in open-top fermentors, aged for 14 months in new oak barrels (95% French, 5% American). Bottled unfiltered. 15,5% alcohol. Tasted in a 2015-2002 Amon-Ra vertical.
  
  Dense, quite concentrated and almost fully opaque blackish-red color. Ripe, sweet-toned and rather powerful nose with bold aromas of boysenberries and some ripe bilberries, a little bit of anise, light evolved notes of wizened dark plums, a hint of pine tar and a touch of licorice root. The oak seems to have integrated remarkably well with the fruit. The wine feels silky smooth yet surprisingly robust and concentrated on the palate with a chewy full body and intense flavors of very ripe blackberries, peppery spice, some pine tar, a little bit of savory wood spice, light sweet notes of wizened black cherries and a hint of soot. Despite its noticeable ripeness, the wine is surprisingly dry and savory for the style. The moderately high acidity and ripe medium-plus tannins keep the wine in balance, but with this much body I'd prefer a bit more structure. The lengthy finish is dense, powerful and spicy with concentrated, savory flavors of ripe blackberries, some peppery spice, a little bit of wizened black cherry, light sooty notes of charred wood, a hint of coffee grounds and a touch of juicy blueberry. The high alcohol makes the wine end on a rather warm note.
  
  A bold, concentrated and powerful vintage of Amon-Ra that is starting to show some developed characteristics in the sweeter, wizened fruit notes, but still the overall flavor profile is surprisingly dry, robust and savory for a wine that is obviously so very ripe and aged only in new oak. The wine has taken the wood characteristics really well, showing great integration of oak with only subtly woody nuances that complement the savory fruit really well. I'd hope the wine would show less alcohol, more acidity and firmer tannic backbone, but this is a terrific and pretty enjoyable effort all the same. However, at 70€ the wine still feels a bit expensive for the quality.

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  7/31/2021 - Winefeld wrote: 89 Points

  30 min decant. Classic Barossa nose of violet, eucalyptus, cigar box and all-spice. Good fruit on the palette, loads of plum, currant and blackberry. Somewhat one note, little in the way of terroir or secondary characteristics. Finishes bitter. Will hold but likely won’t improve. Drink.

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