Brand story
Glaetzer Wallace Shiraz Grenache
The Glaetzers have been in the Barossa since 1888, when the family arrived from Brandenburg among the wave of Silesian Lutherans who settled the valley and planted its first vines. Colin Glaetzer spent three decades making wine in the region before founding Glaetzer Wines in 1995, and the label is now run by his son Ben, who took over winemaking in his twenties and built a reputation for a bold, unapologetically Barossan style. The winery owns no vineyards of its own; instead it works with long-standing growers, above all in the Ebenezer district at the northern end of the valley, where deep sandy loam over clay and very old, dry-grown vines give small berries and concentrated fruit.
Wallace is the Shiraz-Grenache blend in the range, and the most immediately generous of the wines. Shiraz forms the backbone — dark fruit, chocolate and the warm spice the Barossa is known for — while Grenache lifts the aromatics and brings red fruit and a lighter, more perfumed edge. The wine is aged in French and American oak, a good part of it new, in the house manner: rich, polished and ripe rather than restrained. Where the estate's flagship Amon-Ra is built for the cellar, Wallace is made to be opened young, and is the bottle that introduces most drinkers to what Glaetzer does.
