Glaetzer Anaperenna 2021

£41.00

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75cl bottle.

This vintage is exceptional.

Tasted with Nick Keukenmeester- London 2024. Ben Glaetzer gave me good advice a few years back. That was to buy as much 2018 vintage Glaetzer as I could. Today Nick advised to buy the 2021 as its as good as 2018. These chaps make some of the best wines in the world and still at sensible prices.

79% Shiraz / 21% Cabernet Sauvignon

Exceptional old vine fruit 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 2.5 tonnes per hectare.

Tasting Notes
Colour: A deep purple core with a ’rosella’ red rim transforms to garnet with time in bottle.
Aroma: A combination of dark berries is complimented by fresh thyme, dried anise and cardamom.
Palate: The structural integrity of the Cabernet Sauvignon supports a core of pure Shiraz fruit. A dense palate is composed of a multitude of dark berries, currants and plums. The delightfully long finish is a calling card of each vintage of this wine.

 

Critic Reviews:

James Halliday
95 points
Ben Glaetzer does the great Aussie blend well, consistently offering a polished, contemporary take on the very popular wine style. It’s a deeply fruited affair, all cassis, blackberry and black cherry tones with impressive weight, depth and purity. It’s not a wine for the oak-shy, as the cedar and vanilla tones make their presence felt, but all that fruit just sucks it up like a greedy Labrador. Finishing bold with tight, compact powdery tannin and cassis leaving the impression that this will cellar like a champion.

Ray Jordan
96 points
It’s a 79% and 21% Shiraz and Cabernet blend from the Barossa. In both cases the fruit comes off a mix of 30 year to more than 100 year old vines from the Ebenezer subregion of the Barossa. The concentration and intensity of the fruit has enabled Glaetzer to use all new oak with a mix of mostly French and 8% American. The fruit was excellent but the craftsmanship to draw the best out of it is superb. Balanced and poised with that subregional rusty iron filings character a distinctive enhancing influence. There’s a beautiful but not overplayed sweetness on the palate with the fine chalky tannins working precisely.

Jeni Port
94 points
Descriptors such as mellow, rich and generous are expected from Ben Glaetzer’s reds. For Anaperenna 2021, you can add elegant and lively. The ’21 sees the idiosyncratic Aussie blend of Shiraz (79%) and Cabernet Sauvignon (21%) follow a similar path captured in the ’20 with a fresh and energetic interpretation of the style. Red fruits fuse with black pepper spice, liquorice with chocolate against a clean, structured background of well-placed oak (100% new French and American oak hogsheads) and tannin. Rolls along at a pace – there’s that energy – where the role of acidity comes into play. We don’t talk enough about acidity in red wine. It’s contribution here can’t be denied. There’s a touch of alcohol heat to close on the ’21 Anaperenna which reminds the drinker that this remains a rich, ripe and generous young Barossa red. It’s also one that is just starting out on life’s long journey.

Shanteh Wale
94 points
This vintage sees 79% Shiraz from 30-100 year old vines blended with 21% Cabernet Sauvignon from 30- 130 year old material. Low yielding, concentrated fruit that shows up in perfectly ripe blackberries, black cherry and kalamata olive. Thistle, fresh sage and rosemary stem is greeted by Nigella seeds, star anise and graphite. You can feel the palate weight of small and potent berries with a seamless line of acidity and finely meshed tannins. Almost impossible to depict where Shiraz and Cabernet combine, it’s a tale of two friends that mirror each other’s gestures in complimentary style. This is a wine that will age gracefully over a decade but for those that love the richness of youth, drink now. I’d pour this with A juicy aged rib eye and potato fondant.

Robert Parker Wine Advocate
94+ Points
The 2021 Anaperenna Shiraz Cabernet Sauvignon is from the highly anticipated 2021 vintage, one typified by a cool, long, even ripening period and very little disease pressure. Yields were up on the monstrously low 2019/2020 season, a relief for producers. The oak stands proudly atop this wine, and the fruit is a little reductive upon opening; however, the cool flow of flavor across the tongue is sensational. This is glossy, complete and saturated in red and purple fruits. The 2021 is sitting so pert and frisky at this stage – I’m pretty sure, having just looked at the 2020 (and loved it), that this needs a little time to come together. Exceptional fruit.
Erin Larkin, April 2023 Week 1, The Wine Advocate, USA, www.robertparker.com

The Great Australian Red
Silver Medal
The Great Australian Red Competition, Matthew Jukes & Tyson Stelzer, March 2023, Australia