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Lately new wines are being bottled every week and I find this very exciting as the quality and flavour goes above and beyond the price you pay. I encourage you to grab your chances as they pass, inspect our New Release Wines today. David Farmer

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NEW WINES

At Last the Rise of Langhorne Creek

Andrina Langhorne Creek Shiraz 2021

Region:Langhorne Creek, South Australia

Why is it that a district that makes excellent wines fails to gain consumer recognition?

The first vines were planted in Langhorne Creek in the late 1850s some twenty years after McLaren Vale so it has history. Nothing happened till the 1970s when the German winemaker Wolf Blass, a man more detail...

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Durif Calls Barossa Home

Glug 'Omar' Barossa Valley Durif 2019

Region:Barossa Valley, South Australia

The more reds we make with Barossa Valley Durif the more comfortable we become in saying, it has a long future in the valley. Perhaps not surprising as Durif is close genetically to Shiraz the favoured Barossa variety.

We may think of varieties as having an ancient history and while more detail...

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Durif Forms a Natural Partner with Shiraz

Glug 'The Black Rider' Barossa Valley Shiraz Durif 2019

Region:Barossa Valley, South Australia

Shiraz defines the Barossa Valley and varies enough between vineyards and the different approaches of winemakers to provide consumers with endless variations. Additional facets of the variety can be highlighted when Shiraz is blended with several other varieties. Mataro is one perfect partner more detail...

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The Little Fellow Who Fights On

The Jackman South Australia Dry Red Blend No.11 N.V.

Region:South Australia

The little fellow has moved up a division in the fighting stakes and while not a Barossan is beginning to push his weight around.

This is the eleventh bottling, all are slightly different as Benjamin works his way towards perfecting the house red.

The base is a superb batch of Cabernet with more detail...

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Ideal Barossa Blend 1980s Origin

Three Hares No.2 Barossa Valley Mataro Grenache Shiraz 2020

Region:Barossa Valley, South Australia

The winemaker Benjamin Parker has been experimenting with Barossa blends since the start of Glug in 2004 though in a more detailed manner since 2010. These evolved into Trial Bins and the best have been bottled since 2016.

The Three Hares developed from these Trials and focusses on more detail...

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Combining Three Heritage Varieties

Three Hares No.3 Barossa Valley Shiraz Mataro Grenache 2020

Region:Barossa Valley, South Australia

The Three Hares range of Barossa reds developed from the many Grenache Shiraz Mataro blends that Glug has released since 2005.

What has been recognised is that there is no single blend which best shows for each vintage the beauty of how these three varieties enhance each other. Tastes more detail...

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The Middle Vintage of the Three Dry Years

Langdorf Kaldukee Barossa Valley Shiraz 2019

Region:Barossa Valley, South Australia

The variety that identifies Australia is Shiraz.

Its place of origin is still uncertain though it has been grown in the warmer Mediterranean regions of France since antiquity. Vine cuttings then came to Australia and South Australia and the variety became one of the Barossa Valley more detail...

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Developed from Six Years of Trial Bins

Three Hares No.1 Barossa Valley Grenache Shiraz Mataro 2020

Region:Barossa Valley, South Australia

Three varieties which develop their most complex flavours in warm regions are the three that make up blends referred to as GSM’s.

Barossa winemakers have no doubt been blending varieties since the first table wines were made in the 1840s yet no distinctive style was created which more detail...

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Outstanding Expression of Barossa Cabernet

Langdorf Kaldukee Barossa Valley Cabernet Sauvignon 2019

Region:Barossa Valley, South Australia

The most favoured global variety is Cabernet Sauvignon, the result of hundreds of years of promotion of the French Bordeaux reds which are made from this variety.

Bordeaux wines are not labelled with the composition of the variety or varieties used to make the wine and it was only later more detail...

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WORDS FROM DAVID FARMER

'We welcome any customer but you will enjoy the best of Glug if you like to see what nature brings. We make small batch lots, hence no two wines will be the same, as we are happiest when preserving the differences of wines. What we do best is buying at the farm gate and challenging our customers just a little with the many small variations we discover and create in our winemaking.'