Glaetzer Bishop Shiraz, Barossa Valley 1999

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Bishop Shiraz shares many qualities with its "big brother" Glaetzer Shiraz but is not merely a shadow of that wine.

The full-bodied wine is made predominantly from 30 to 60-year-old vines at Ebenezer and always contains material from the oldest 80-year-old vines. This ensures the Glaetzer “house” style is evident.

Powerful without being overpowering, The Bishop has chocolate, mocha and leather characters on the nose. The wine has a generous palate, with hints of licorice, is a seamless fusion of intense fruit flavours, firm yet velvety tannins and vanillin oak. It is a juicy Barossa blockbuster but still with a pleasing subtlety.

The name Bishop is a family name of Colin’s wife Judith.

Influential wine critic Robert Parker Jnr awarded the 1999 Glaetzer The Bishop Shiraz with 90 points in his respected publication, The Wine Advocate. He described the wine as: “…..the 1999 Bishop exhibits copious aromas of melted licorice, intertwined with crème de cassis, leather and creosote. Dense, full-bodied, supple-textured and already delicious, it can be drunk now or over the next 7 – 8 years.”

Winemaker:  Colin Glaetzer, Ben GlaetzerGrowing region: Barossa Valley, South AustraliaVariety: Shiraz, 100%Vinification: After initial fermentation in small, open vats, the wine is aged in American and French hogsheads for 18 months.

"Glaetzer Shiraz epitomises the strong sense of place emerging in the Barossa... Glaetzer  is one of the emerging stars of the Barossa…philosophically, and by heritage, Glaetzer is Barossa down to its bootstraps... The Bishop, seemingly with religious connotations, is actually named after Colin's wife's family. The style is quite similar to Penfolds' St Henri.".
Langtons Fine Wine Guide, Fifth edition, Aust, 2002

 “Winemaker Colin Glaetzer shines with his own range of Barossa wines This is a classic Barossa Shiraz from old dry grown vines. The Bishop is a beautifully multifaceted shiraz, which makes for an ideal long-term cellaring proposition…”
Sharon Wild in Australian Gourmet Traveller WINE magazine,  February/March 2002