Goat Square – bottled sunshine made by rain in the Barossa Valley are nature’s ingredients in Glug’s best selling red wine.
The 2021 Goat Square Shiraz is the wine we are proudest of and our customers seem to agree. Almost every month they keep coming back to buy more of it.
The Goat deserves it. We would confidently put it in tastings with wines costing double its $14.50 a bottle. A classic example of why you should not judge a wine’s quality by its price.
The Goat is a pure expression of Barossa Shiraz with the ripeness and complex flavours of the fruit being complemented with a light dose of mature oak. Our winemakers do not want the fruit competing with the raw flavours of new oak.
This style of wine is what we wished to make when coming to the Barossa. This is achieved by using simple wine making methods, summed up as pick, ferment in small open fermenters, settle and age in old, oak puncheons. Our winemakers are careful with over-use of pump-overs which can extract unwanted hard flavours, and there is no pre or post soaking and repeat no new oak.
Incidentally Goat Square is an historic masterpiece as it was the original centre of Tanunda, Barossa Valley, and survives with three original cottages on the corners of the square with the oldest, the Rieschieck house built in 1850.
