Kaesler Old Vine Shiraz 2023
- 94
- $110
- Drink by: 2026-2041
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It’s sourced from vines that were planted back in the 1960s and taken from cuttings from the Old Bastard vineyard of 1893. It comes off three estate blocks and was traditionally handled before maturation for sixteen months before release. On the nose, there are bright red fruits with a distinctly raspberry juby character and a smidgen of vanilla pod swirling throughout. The palate has a soft suppleness about it, with deep flavorsome red fruits and a little spicy lift. Integrated, balanced, and poised through to the finish. Excellent wine.
Ray Jordan has been writing about wine for more than 40 years. His first articles were published in the early issues of national wine magazine Winestate in the late 1970s when he worked in Sydney as a newspaper correspondent. From 1989 Ray wrote more than 3000 columns as a regular newspaper wine columnist. He currently writes a regular column for the special business publication Business News and is one of the main contributors to national wine platform Wine Pilot. In 2017 Ray co-authored The Way it Was – A History of The Early Days of the Margaret River Wine Industry and previously wrote Wine in the Blood: Australia’s Family Wine Estates, published in Mandarin and English. In 2011 Ray was awarded WA Wine Press Club Jack Mann Memorial Medal for his contribution to the WA wine industry. His love of wine is as strong as his love of the blues and tasting the thousands of wines that cross his bench each year allows him to indulge in both.
