2008 Glaetzer Shiraz Amon-Ra Barossa Valley

Community Tasting Notes (22) Avg Score: 91.7 points

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  8/19/2023 - stayhappy21 wrote: 92 Points

  Drank this bottle at a dinner with my wine mates at Chao Shan Cuisine to celebrate someone winning the lottery.
  
  Dark purple. Rounded, smooth, with notes of aged leather. Balanced with black pepper and a sweet finish. Some ink and iodine notes were detected in the aftertaste.

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  1/14/2023 - jviz wrote: 93 Points

  Polished and glossy, this was PnP next to an 01 Greenock creek. Both were quite rich and more similar than different. The GC was the more aromatic and open, perhaps a bit more layers and details but this was tall and had a lot to offer. I do think they are best on release but it’s not like RP was off his rocker here ;)

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  12/1/2022 - Bosbevok Likes this wine: 96 Points

  Now let me first off state that Glaetzers Amon Ra is one of my Aussie favourites, so I may be biased. Deep dark red with a hint of brick at the edges…but still youthfull. This reminds one of a school yard bully. In your face and dominated whatever I was eating. Huge nose, a balance of red and some tropical fruit like stewed guava. Also some wood and dry camp fire aromas suttley in the background. Beautiful follow up on the palate with continued stewed berries and spicey fruit cake. Long lingering finish perfectly rounding out each sip.

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  11/26/2021 - Praxis wrote: 92 Points

  Dark blackish reddish orange in appearance with a slight clear meniscus. The aromatic nose is dominated by rich, sweet bake fruits, followed by what I describe as a sense of overwhelming meat, rubber tires and assorted herbs with a hint of spiciness and some residual alcoholic heat. The palate is quite rich, full-bodied, a tad of sweetness, spicy and relatively soft and smooth with a degree of old vine complexity but still contains a degree of awkwardness in the middle palate where the fruit seems to be overwhelmed by a wall of herbaceousness and rubber which gives way to a fleeing flash of oak. The flavor profile is pretty much the same as my previous tasting of this in 9/29/18. While I do think that this may still have some mojos to last for at least the short (3 years) to mid-term (7 years), but I do not think that it will get any better. Personally, my best experience with was back in 10/26/11 when I first tried this while it was in it’s early years of life. Unfortunately, I won’t have the pleasure of finding out firsthand since this is my last of the 5 bottles I that got back in 2010.

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  2/17/2021 - Leigh Johnson Likes this wine: 91 Points

  This wine has got better and better in the last year or so. Its still exceptionally young and needs quite some decanting. In fact, its almost always better the next day, to give you an idea of how much air it needs. However, the flavour and depth are well worth waiting for. Chock full of black fruit, mulberry, black cherry, still tons of acidity and a strong tannic backbone. The tennis are beginning to soften and i think this wine will be excellent for several years to come. Hugely pleasurable now (with decanting) but no rush at all to consume these.

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