2022 Glaetzer Anaperenna Shiraz Cabernet Sauvignon

82% Shiraz / 18% Cabernet Sauvignon

Glaetzer Anaperenna is a seamless fusion of Shiraz and Cabernet Sauvignon. It is exquisitely generous and yet refined, with a very long satisfying finish.

Exceptional old vine fruit that was sourced from the famed Ebenezer sub district at the northern tip of the Barossa Valley. Vine age 30–100-year-old Shiraz and 30–130-year-old Cabernet. Yield is 2.5 tonnes per hectare.

The wine is fermented in 1 and 2 tonne open fermenters, hand plunged 3 times daily. Matured for 16 months in 100% new oak hogshead barrels (92% French and 8% American) and matured on lees to maintain fruit profile and animation. Bottled unfiltered to ensure minimal intervention with the wine’s natural characteristics.

In colour, the wine has an opaque purple core with a ruby red rim, which then transforms to garnet with time in bottle. It has a combination of black currants, blackberries and plum on the nose, and accompanied by fresh thyme, fennel and black pepper.

On the palate the Cabernet Sauvignon acts as a view finder to the centre of this generous Shiraz driven wine. A substantial palate is composed of the classic dark berries that typify Anaperenna. This is soft enough to savour on its own or can complement any intensely flavoured dish. It is a wine that wine mature extremely well with long term cellaring through to 2040 and beyond. – Ben Glaetzer