Kaesler Old Vine Shiraz 2023

Written By Campbell Mattinson
Bottle off Kaesler Old Vine Shiraz 2023.

Kaesler Old Vine Shiraz 2023
$110, 14.5% alcohol, cork, Barossa Valley.

There’s excellent fruit concentration on display here, enough complexity to carry it, and beautiful svelte texture throughout. This is a balanced, elongated, well structured Barossa shiraz – it’s neat as a pin – but it’s also seductive. One sip and you can feel your whole body relaxing into its folds. It tastes of blackberry, ripe plums, roasted nuts and saltbush, with a modest/subtle run of coffeed, milk-chocolate oak as well. This is high quality gear from start to finish. 94 points.

Campbell Mattinson

This article was written by Campbell Mattinson, former chief editor of the Halliday Wine Companion book, former editor of Halliday magazine, former editor of Australian Sommelier Magazine and founder of the highly respected The Winefront site.

Mattinson has been an independent wine critic and photo-journalist since 1987. 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; is the author of the award-winning book The Wine Hunter; and is the author of the best-selling novel We Were Not Men. He’s also a winner of a St Kilda Film Festival Award (as writer-director) and is a former winner of the prized Best Australian Sports Writing Award.

Mattinson, who is 100% independent, puts a score out of 100 on every wine that he reviews. But what he’d rather do, is tell you the wine’s story.

https://www.campbellmattinson.com
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