Glaetzer-Dixon

Southern Tasmania, NSW

Glaetzer, a name historically synonymous with the Barossa, is now famous for world-class Pinot Noir and Shiraz from Tasmania. Nick is a 6th generation vigneron who cut his teeth in the Barossa cellars of his family’s Glaetzer Wines while also working vintages in Margaret River, the Hunter, the Pfalz region of Germany, Burgundy and Languedoc, before a love of pinot noir drew him to Tasmania. In 2008, he set up Glaetzer-Dixon Family Winemakers, initially sharing winemaking facilities at Frogmore Creek and Moorilla before moving to a purpose-built urban cellar in a former ice factory on the edge of Hobart’s CBD. Glaetzer-Dixon sources grapes from approximately a dozen growers, mostly in the Coal River and Upper Derwent valleys in the south, & Tamar Valley in the north. Some of these growers were the pioneers of the Tasmanian wine industry, establishing their vineyards in the early 1970s. Nick has planted a 12ha vineyard at Tea Tree in the Coal River Valley, with the first harvest in 2024.