Kaesler Age of Light Cabernet Sauvignon 2022
- 95
- $150
- Drink by: 2025-2045
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Bordeaux barriques are used for the maturation of this fine, warm climate Cabernet from the Barossa Valley. Under cork, just 1,650 bottles were made. The colour here was an opaque maroon purple. Good use of oak and the integration is impressive. The nose offers notes of raspberries, mulberries, cassis, black fruits, aniseed, cedar, tobacco leaves and axle grease (in the most positive sense). This is generous, exquisitely crafted, offers a fine line of bright acidity which runs the full journey, well balanced and of very good length. Still very fresh, this will provide pleasure for many years, at least fifteen to twenty.
Ken was born and bred in Brisbane, Queensland. He had a non-trendy, perfectly happy childhood, in a family convinced alcohol meant instant condemnation to Hades. But a break fishing on the Great Barrier Reef, and some good wine, started a serious obsession that eventually took over. It did not stop Ken being chastised later for drinking Pol champagne, disgusted he’d drink anything made by a Cambodian dictator. Now, Ken mostly writes on wine, champagne and spirits for various newspapers, magazines and books, but is perhaps best known for his work in The Courier Mail. He also has a little sideline writing on cigars, fishing, travel and food. When not writing, fly-fishing for trout in NZ or bonefish on the flats of Cuba, travelling or smoking cigars, he is no doubt following a variety of sporting teams – the occasionally glorious Queensland Reds rugby, the dysfunctional Washington Redskins, the dodgy Arsenal and especially revels in the world restored to its proper axis with the return of the Ashes to their rightful home.
