A new wine for Glug’s premium range. After a 17 year wait we made a wine worthy of elevation as our best Barossa Valley Cabernet. The Goat Square Reserve ‘Ziegenmarkt’ Barossa Valley Cabernet Sauvignon 2019 is so good it deserved our flagship label.
Cabernet has a long history in the Barossa Valley with bearing vines dating back to 1892. Even so as the post war swing to table wines grew there were only a few vineyard patches in the Barossa Valley with new plantings not beginning until the 1980s.
As the high quality of Barossa reds became recognised this was about Shiraz and until recently Barossa Cabernet was overlooked. I think this was natural as the publicity for Cabernet was focussed on Coonawarra and our generally cooler climate and coastal vineyards, these being more akin to the type region of Bordeaux, France.
As the Australian palate has matured so the interest has grown for the warmer, fuller richer styles of Cabernet. Those Orlando Gramps Barossa Cabernets from the 1950s and 1960s that I enjoyed long ago are now expressed in this Goat Square Ziegenmarkt.
We made Goat Square Cabernets in 2004, 2005 and 2006 then stopped since the fleshy, ripe style we wanted for the Goat did not suit the Cabernet fruit we were using.
This Ziegenmarkt is different though may be a ‘one off’. A list of past vintages of all Goat Square wines is at glugwines.com.au
