Kaesler Old Bastard Shiraz 2021

Written By Campbell Mattinson
Bottle of Kaesler Old Bastard Shiraz 2021.

Kaesler Old Bastard Shiraz 2021
$350, 14.5% alcohol, cork, Barossa Valley.

This wine is monumental in the best of ways. In short, it’s a home run, by a margin. It’s soft, deep, intense, complex, framed by tannin and so long through the finish that you have time to look at your watch as the flavours keep ricocheting along. It tastes of plums, pan juices, smoked meats, aromatic herbs, cedarwood and saltbush, though the eventual sum is greater than these parts. This wine is harmonious. This wine is emphatic. It’s an absolute beauty. 96 points.

Campbell Mattinson

This article was written by Campbell Mattinson, founder of The Winefront and mattinson, and former chief editor of Halliday.

When you pick up a wine book and see thousands of top-scoring wines, it’s hard to know which wine to choose. Mattinson guides you through this maze, giving you an honest view of the best Australian wines, the best wine stories, the best wine producers, the best value wines and simply, the best tasting wines. Importantly, Mattinson will tell you about the top-rated wines and also about the underrated wines. In short, Mattinson knows Australian wines inside and out.

Mattinson has been a photo-journalist since 1987. For the past 25 years he’s been a voice that you can trust when you’re looking for the best wines. He’s the only Australian to have won the Australian Wine Communicator of the Year Award more than once. He’s a past winner of a Louis Roederer International Wine Media Award, and is the author of the award-winning book The Wine Hunter. He’s not afraid to put a score beside a wine. But what he’d rather do, is tell you the wine’s story.

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