Aussie wine critic Jeremy Oliver reveiws Glaetzer Shiraz and Bishop

Glaetzer Wines:"…the product of 80 year-old vines in the Ebenezer district in the Barossa’s northwest, they are sumptuous, smooth and deeply flavoured.  Of the reds featured here, the Bishop Shiraz tends to express more vitality and brightness than the more powerful, meaty and deeply ripened (Glaetzer) Shiraz.

Glaetzer Bishop Shiraz 2004, Barossa Valley
A seductive, smooth and sumptuous easy and early-drinking red with a violet-like perfume of cassis, spearmint and cedar/chocolate oak.  Its vibrant berry flavours are unobtrusively supported by oak and farmed by supple, gentle tannins.  Very sexy.

Glaetzer Shiraz 2002, Barossa Valley
A very competent wine of perfume and flavour, which reveals suggestions of stressed fruit.  Its delicate aromas of violet, cassis and dark plums overlie nuances of menthol, currants, and vanilla oak.  Full to medium in weight, its vibrant mid-palate of blackcurrant, plums and cherries is supported by gamey vanilla ok and framed by fine-grained tannins, with a hint of fruit breakdown at the finish."