Kaesler Old Vine Shiraz
- Red
- Australia
- Barossa Valley
- Shiraz/Syrah
- Tracked vintages
- 21
- Community notes
- 244
- Merchant offers
- 18
What we know about this wine
- Critics
- 95/ 1002018 · nearest vintage with a critic score
- Real drinkers
- 89/ 100244 notes, every vintage
- Market price
- £16per 75 cl2015 · nearest vintage with a price · 12-bottle in-bond trade, October 2018
- Drinking window
- 2022–2032peak2015 · nearest vintage with a window
Flavour and structure
What drinkers taste in this wine across its vintages, and how it is built: body, acidity, tannin and sweetness on a five-point scale, with the number of ratings behind them.
Structure from 109 community ratings, read 2026-08-12. Style: Australian Barossa Valley Shiraz.
- Body4.8 / 5
- LightFull
- Acidity3.1 / 5
- SoftCrisp
- Tannin3.3 / 5
- SmoothGrippy
- Sweetness2.3 / 5
- DrySweet
- Black fruit · blackberry, plum, black fruit, blackcurrant, dark fruit
- Oak · oak, vanilla, chocolate, cedar, dark chocolate
- Spice · pepper, licorice, cinnamon, eucalyptus, menthol
- Earth · leather, smoke, earthy, graphite, minerals
- Red fruit · cherry, raspberry, red fruit, cranberry, pomegranate
- Yeast and lees · banana, cheese, cream
Grapes: Shiraz/Syrah. Proportions are not recorded.
Descriptors are the words drinkers used most, grouped; counts are mentions. Tannin is shown only where it was measured.
2004One point per priced vintage. Years with no price we can stand behind are not drawn.2015
Vintages
Each vintage has its own page with both scores, the drinking window and the merchant price range. The meter is the score on a 60-100 scale and its colour is where that vintage stands against its own drinking window. Prices are per 75cl, with the case size and month they were taken from.
- 2023unit not stated
- 2022unit not stated
- 202090drinkersunit not stated
- 201895criticunit not stated
- 201595critic£16 / 75cl12-bottle in-bond trade, October 2018
- 201490drinkersunit not stated
- 201080drinkers
- 200994critic£35 / 75cl6-bottle in-bond trade, March 2018
- 200892critic
- 200793critic£31 / 75cl6-bottle in-bond trade, March 2023
- 200691drinkers
- 200594critic£18 / 75cl12-bottle in-bond trade, May 2020
- 200494critic£27 / 75cl6-bottle in-bond trade, September 2022
- 200392drinkers
- 200291drinkers
- 200191drinkers
- 199992drinkers
- 199889drinkers
- 199788drinkers
- 199686drinkers
- 199492drinkers
- Peakinside the middle half of its stated window
- Past its windowits window has closed
- Window not recordedthe vintage carries no window, so the meter shows its score alone
- Best scored
- 2015
- 95 / 100 from a critic
- Drinking now
- 2015
- peak, window 2022–2032
- Lowest price
- 2015
- £16 per 75 cl
Price by vintage
One monthly median per vintage, divided by the case size it was quoted in, so the bars are the same unit. These are our own aggregates, not offers: nobody will sell you a median.
Solid: a realised in-bond trade
View as a table
| Vintage | Price / 75cl | Critic score | In drink window | Basis |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | £16 | 94.7 | Yes | per 75cl, from a 12-bottle in-bond trade, October 2018 |
| 2009 | £35 | 94 | No | per 75cl, from a 6-bottle in-bond trade, March 2018 |
| 2007 | £31 | 92.6 | No | per 75cl, from a 6-bottle in-bond trade, March 2023 |
| 2005 | £18 | 93.6 | No | per 75cl, from a 12-bottle in-bond trade, May 2020 |
| 2004 | £27 | 94 | — | per 75cl, from a 6-bottle in-bond trade, September 2022 |
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