2016 Old Bastard Shiraz, Kaesler
Kaesler's flagship Shiraz, and one of Australia's most collected, from gnarly old 'ancestor' vines planted over 125 years ago. Deep saturated colour with some dried fruit, spice and blackberry on the nose. The palate is very rich, with dense black fruits, fig and spice and a creamy, opulent texture.
2016 Old Bastard Shiraz, Kaesler
Kaesler's flagship Shiraz, and one of Australia's most collected, from gnarly old 'ancestor' vines planted over 125 years ago. Deep saturated colour with some dried fruit, spice and blackberry on the nose. The palate is very rich, with dense black fruits, fig and spice and a creamy, opulent texture.
Vinous
Inky purple. A hugely perfumed bouquet evokes ripe black and blue fruits, vanilla, exotic spices and incense, with a smoke and pipe tobacco notes in the background. Shows superb depth as well as energy to its palate-coating blueberry, cherry-vanilla, mocha and fruitcake flavors, which show outstanding definition and back-end lift. Finishes on a youthfully tannic note, with reverberating dark fruit and floral character and superb persistence.
96 Points / Drinking 2025 - 2035
By Josh Raynolds / December 2021