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

Campbell Mattinson has been an independent journalist, wine critic and photographer for forty years. He founded The Winefront, is a former chief editor of the Halliday Wine Companion (and former editor of Halliday magazine), and is the only Australian to have won the Australian Wine Communicator of the Year Award more than once. He is 100% independent, and tastes between 5,000 and 10,000 wines each year, blind and in comparative brackets as often as is practicable.

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Mattinson is also the founder of the Mattinson Photography business.

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