Gourmet Traveller Wine

Gourmet Traveller Wine has once again named Glaetzer-Dixon Family Winemakers the Best Wine Tasting Experience in Southern Tasmania.

One of Tasmania’s most highly awarded winemakers, Nick Glaetzer has transformed an old ice factory on the edge of Hobart’s CBD into the state’s first urban winery and tasting room.

Wine writer Max Allen had this to say about the Glaetzer-Dixon Urban Winery in Gourmet Traveller magazine:

Nick Glaetzer's cellar door and winery in Hobart … is as thoroughly urban as they come: the new home of Glaetzer-Dixon Family Winemakers is an old ice factory on the busy main road heading into the Tasmanian capital from the north.

Glaetzer has sourced grapes from various Tasmanian vineyards for his label for some time and, like Retief, has until now rented space and equipment in other people's wineries, most recently at Moorilla. He'll continue to make his fine riesling and chardonnay there (with all the necessary refrigeration), but from next year he'll process pinot noir and shiraz on-site in Hobart. It gives him the opportunity to have more control over the winemaking - he and his family live upstairs - and to interact with his customers more in the sleek cellar door space, with its moody lighting, posh Riedel stemware and state-of-the-art iPad tasting-note technology.

"We felt that if you have a brand, you need to have a face," he says. And being in the middle of town, that face is exactly where the customers are.