Kaesler Age of Light Cabernet Sauvignon 2023
- 93
- $150
- Drink by: 2026-2046
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Purists may turn their noses up at warm climate Cabernet Sauvignon, but lovers of wine which offers endless flavour know better. This wine comes from the team’s best block of Barossa Cabernet and is only made in those vintages which reach the level of quality they require. Under cork, the wine usually spends around a year and a half maturing in Bordeaux barriques. Opaque maroon with a mauve rim, the nose reveals aromas of truffles, dried herbs, savoury notes, spices, dry vegetation, chocolate, black fruits, beef stock, soy, cloves and aniseed with bold, black cherries emerging more on the palate. There is a supple and rather seductive texture here. A wine of medium to good length with very fine, cashmere-like tannins, there is excellent balance and focus. For enjoying over the next twelve to twenty years.
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.
