Kaesler The Fave Grenache 2023
$60, 14% alcohol, screwcap, Barossa Valley.
What a beautiful wine. Complexity is made to look effortless here. It tastes of undergrowth, ripe red cherry, cola, tobacco, sweet earth, graphite and a whisper of cedar, and while it’s only mid-weight at most, the flow, feel and flavour of it are all into seduction territory. This is a lovely, lovely wine. It’s (well) structured and persistent too. 94 points.
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.
Mattinson is also the founder of the Mattinson Photography business.
