2022 Glaetzer »AMON-Ra« Shiraz

»The 2022 Amon-Ra Shiraz speaks so clearly of the Glaetzer house style: this is to say, sleek, polished, powerful, seamless and fruit-driven. These are wines that speak of the Barossa in their earthy splay of pliable tannin, but they have a vibrance to the fruit that is most attractive. So, while these wines harness the place – this wine could hardly be from anywhere else – they do it in a restrained kind of way. Not that you could call this 2022 Amon-Ra Shiraz “restrained” and get away with it. More to comment on the fact that Barossa is yoked and controlled in this wine. I like it a lot. There are notes of dark chocolate, black cherries, raspberry pastille and even pomegranate molasses, alongside sweet paprika, ironstone and red earth, roasted meat and a throw of tapenade. This is really good.«

Robert Parker gilt als einer der einflussreichsten Weinkritiker der Welt und hat mit seinem 100-Punkte-Bewertungssystem die Weinszene revolutioniert. Seine Leistungen haben ihn zum Wein-Guru gemacht. Parker legte nicht nur Wert auf die Vergabe von Punkten, sondern auch auf ausführliche Verkostungsnotizen und detaillierte Beschreibungen der Weine. Seine Expertise spiegelte sich in präzisen und eindrucksvollen Bewertungen wider.

»I feel that Ben Glaetzer’s Amon-Ra is one of the flag bearers for contemporary Barossan shiraz, certainly when it comes to the more powerful, weighty styles. It has a sense of compression. Wildly concentrated black fruits and palate heft, yet it displays freshness and form; supple, lithe and possessed of northern subregional power writ large. There’s and imperious tannin structure but the fruit just sucks it all up and charges on. One for the sybaritic indulger of Barossan wine. It’s a ripper.«

Der Australier ist einer der wichtigsten Weinkritiker und gibt einen besonders ausführlichen Überblick über australische Weine mit mehr als 135.000 Verkostungsnotizen.

»This is truly an iconic wine and a Barossa classic. Again, from the highly regarded Ebenezer sub-region, with the vines between fifty and 130 years of age. The yield is just a derisory two tonnes per hectare. Maturation was for sixteen months in new hogsheads, 95% French and the remainder American. Under cork. The colour here is black as a politician’s heart. There are cigar box notes, chocolate, blackberries, tobacco leaves, mocha, licorice, coffee beans and cold tea. This is supple, seamless and silky, with immaculately integrated oak, focus, serious length, impeccable balance and ideal structure. This is simply stunning and will continue to thrill for the next fifteen to twenty years. There are plenty of more expensive flagship wines from this region that don’t hold a candle to this cracker.«

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