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Kaesler Old Bastard Shiraz(2005)
- Winery:
- Kaesler
- Varietal:
- Syrah
- Region:
- Australia > South Australia > Barossa
- Type:
- Red Wine
- User Tags:
- red grape, meat, syrah, voluptuous, velvet, ericaceae, blueberry, red meat, complex, super concentrated
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April 2008
- As good as the preceding wines may be, they pale in the shadow of the 2005 Shiraz Old Bastard, sourced from a 114-year-old vineyard, and which spent 22 months in new and one-year-old French oak. It presents a superb perfume of cedar, violets, lavender, smoked meat, game, black raspberry, and blueberry. This leads to a voluptuous, velvety-textured, layered, super concentrated Shiraz in perfect balance with well-concealed tannins and a 60-second, pure finish. Give it 6-8 years and drink it through 2035. The Kaesler family, of Silesian origin, emigrated to the Barossa in the 1840s. The winemaking read more...
