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09/07/2024

UPDATE- This product has now been SOLD OUT!
Keep an eye out for the 2022 vintage to be released soon. It is also a ripper of a wine!

Only a few cases left of the Goat Square Shiraz 2021 so get in quick.

26/06/2024

We look at the complete show record of all the 2021 Shiraz wines that won a gold medal at a capital city wine show last year. The different sets of judges were all over the place. Several wines that won gold at one show did not even get a bronze at another one. It’s got to make you wonder about the point of it all. Which verdict should be believed? But if you fancy the wisdom of the judging crew at the National Wine Show, one real bargain is available.
See https://www.glugwines.com.au/so-you-think-you-can-trust-wine-judges/

25/06/2024

Where have young wine drinkers gone? In the United States it is to ma*****na and Australia is probably no different.
The Wall Street Journal reported recently that for the first time, the U.S. has more daily cannabis users than alcohol users.
Younger people have moved away from alcohol over health concerns. See https://www.glugwines.com.au/ma*****na-young-people-wine/

25/06/2024

And prices are now on the decline again

Grape Price developments in Australia and New Zealand compared to 2001 (current prices in local currency). In 2023, Australian grape prices were still 22% below their 2001 level; in New Zealand, prices rose to 67% above their 2001 level.

25/06/2024

Main Winegrape Varieties in Australia, 1956-2023

25/06/2024

Wine Sales in France 1988-2022, by Color. The rise of rosé and the fall of red. Between 1988 and 2022, red wine's share fell from 83% to 44%. That is, the decline in France's overall wine sales is exclusively due to the decline in red wine sales. While white wine sales have been flat, rosé sales have been surging. Rosé's share grew from 9% to 35% (by volume).

07/05/2024

The Guardian's Samantha Payne broke all the wine writer’s rules with a review of CASK WINES. Will she be snubbed at future gatherings of Wine Communicators of Australia? Details at https://www.glugwines.com.au/what-people-actually-drink/

01/05/2024

The wine merchant who once sold 1972 Grange for $8.99 a bottle still follows his principle of providing quality at value for money prices.

Wines aplenty under $10 a bottle are what you will always find at Glug Wines where providing value for money is our credo.

01/05/2024

And the winner is of our little competition commnting on a James Halliday tasting note is:
Ian Urquhart!
"Allegedly known in the industry as at the higher end of maintenance. His opinion expanded as the amount of winery tasting product increased. Must be getting plenty for those notes. Wonder if it’s drinkable? He doesn’t say does he? ... I'm aware of several examples over the years where it's been more important for some wineries to be 'ranked and rated' by Halliday. His positioning as the Points man meant he was able to exert significant influence over the industry and take advantage of that."
James gets a $50 Glug Wines voucher

23/04/2024

Explore wines from the wonderful 2021 vintage at https://shop.glugwines.com.au while they last.

21/04/2024

See the great 2021 Barossa reds at: https://shop.glugwines.com.au/product-category/red-wines/

21/04/2024

Would dearer Glug wines taste better? MRI tests suggest “yes” as price labels influence people’s liking of wine.

It seems that when a bottle costs more, the reward center in the brain plays a trick on people. The same wine tastes better to participants when it is labeled with a higher price tag.

A Science Daily report shows scientists discovered that the decision-making and motivation center in the brain plays a pivotal role in such price biases to occur. The medial pre-frontal cortex and the ventral striatum are particularly involved in this.
Details at:
https://www.glugwines.com.au/prices-up-sell-more/

19/03/2024

You can’t judge wine quality by price
The growing band of Aldi shoppers are different. Not for them the notion that if something is dearer it must be better. Astute shoppers are rejecting the major supermarkets with their expensive brands and occasional so-called “specials”. People are trusting their own experience and making big savings using Aldi’s own brands.
At Glug Wines we are big admirers of the Aldi way of always having fair and low prices with a quality equal to, or better, than big name ones. And we have one extra advantage in providing value-for-money.
At our Barossa Valley winery we make, blend and bottle wines and then dispatch them direct to you. Just one set of margins; not two, three or four.
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https://shop.glugwines.com.au/

14/03/2024

The boutique Barossa maker of this wine found there's a limit to how much he can sell at his price four times or so higher than what Glug is offering its own bottling of his surplus.
At our $9.50 a bottle, The Green Patch Barossa Valley Shiraz 2022 is wonderful drnking at a truly bargain price.
https://glug.pub/greenpatchshiraz

Barossa Shiraz has a density of flavour like no other and quality examples produce an impression of sweetness on the mid palate.

14/03/2024

Bye, bye sommeliers?
The job, once seen as an essential feature of any establishment serious about wine, now seems to be a luxury in the post-pandemic restaurant economy.
Many serious, wine-oriented restaurants are doing without them.
https://www.glugwines.com.au/bye-bye-sommeliers/

22/02/2024

The Barossa Valley is a wine area with a great tradition and that was a major attraction when we set up Glug over 20 years ago. And how pleased we are to have done so. Other regions have their passing moments of fashion but what the German settlers established back in the 1840s lives on.

The history of how these refugees from religious intolerance laid the foundations of the Australian wine industry deserves to live on. And this Michael Charlton 4 Corners program from 1962 does just that.
Keep-up-tp-date with Barossa news at www.glugwines.com.au

17/02/2024

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13/02/2024

08/02/2024

Vintage Update..........

Things are starting to happen here in the Barossa with the warm dry conditions in the past few weeks. Some white varieties have just started to be picked. but reds are still a few weeks away yet.

Hope this great weather continues for a while yet!

07/02/2024

From a recent James Haliday tasting note:
A wine with “shimmering tannins”? “Silk and satin rather than velvet”? What can this wine actually taste like? If you can explain it, to quote Rudyard Kipling: “By the livin’ Gawd that made you, You’re a better man than I am, Gunga Din!”
See the full wine jargon at www.glugwines.com.au
PS
There’s a $50 Glug Wines voucher for the best explanation of what James was getting at. Emails please to [email protected]

05/02/2024

The story of pollutants in the mineral water is denting the reputation of France as the purest home of fine wining and dining.

French officials found in 2022 that major brands including Vittel, Contrex, Hépar, Perrier and St-Yorre had for many years received treatments that did not comply with the regulations.

Sporadic contamination of bacterial or chemical origin meant that the waters needed purification techniques authorised on tap water but prohibited on “spring water” or “natural mineral water”.

Read more at: https://glugwine.co/mineralwater

05/02/2024

What a great way to start the week. The collection of a few barrels of Barossa Valley Shiraz and Grenache V23 from one of our regulars. Looking forward to making something nice from these!

01/02/2024

The Australian wine peasants’ revolt is underway. The grape growers of Australia’s Murray Basin are stirring. The street blockade by tractors, harvesters and trucks at Renmark on Wednesday is surely just the beginning of direct action.
Will ithis revolt see Prime Minister Albo rowing down the Murray like the boy-king Richard II came down the Thames in 1381?
www.glugwines.com.au

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18/01/2024

Drink the Wombat, help save wombats.
Every bottle of ‘The Wombat’ Shiraz 2022 sold will send $2 to The Wombat Protection Society.
Shiraz with touches of viognier and Barossa mataro.
$8.95 a bottle with $2 going to help save wombats
https://glugwine.co/wombat

We needed a red and had this bulk which is mostly Shiraz from all over South Australia and to this added a touch of Viognier and Barossa Mataro. The result is delicious, and the wine is for those occasions when you are waving a glass around as the debate is far more important.

17/01/2024

The London Times diarist notes the advice of the tasting committee on the official cellar of the UK government ranges from “no hurry” on a 1955 Latour to “use with caution” on a 1961 Corton or the rather pessimistic “keep and hope” on a 1988 Margaux. Ports include an exceptional 1931 Quinta do Noval (“very special occasions only”) and a 1983 Dow (“use without anxiety”), while the advice on the 1878 cognac is “drink very sparingly”.

The Times’ diarist concludes: “Just as well Boris’s team took their booze suitcase to the Co-op rather than seeing what was on the shelves below Lancaster House.”

The item reminded me of the occasion when my brother David joined his friend Edgar Riek lunching on the balcony at Admiralty House one glorious Sydney summer’s day to review the Australian Governor General’s cellar. David maintains the pair did not realise that the Château d’Yquem they opened to quality test was the last bottle in the collection.

15/01/2024

Wine Australia tries not to mention alcohol. To put it bluntly, the wine industry tries to pretend it is not really a part of the alcohol industry. The body at the top of the industry pyramid just published its draft One Grape & Wine Sector Plan with barely a mention of the subject.

There is a nod towards the need to drawing customers away from unnamed competitors by supporting “the development of new Australian products that help us to compete in new and emerging product categories, such as no, low and mid-strength alcohol.”

Then the Plan’s section on environmental, social and governance (ESG) credentials notes a need to “undertake ongoing assessments of scientific, community, and government positions relating to alcohol and health, and support initiatives aimed at promoting responsible drinking and community welfare programs, while asserting our right to grow, produce and sell wine as part of consumer’s balanced lifestyle.”

And for alcohol references, that was that.

Not much has changed since 40 or so years ago at a major industry conference dinner speech in Adelaide my opening remarks were “Fellow drug-pushers”. That was greeted with shaking heads and silence and the wine trade still prefers to pretend that it is in a different category to those spirits and beer fellows.

In the make-believe-world of wine, people drink their form of alcohol for higher and nobler reasons than just enjoying its effects. To me that is a mistaken and underlying premise of the One Grape & Wine Sector Plan. There is no single “sector” to plan for unless you think, like Wine Australia, that wine at its core is simply an agricultural product.

15/01/2024

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