2012 Kaesler Cabernet Sauvignon

Community Tasting Notes (10) Avg Score: 89.2 points

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  4/17/2024 - Neddy9 Likes this wine: 90 Points

  Opened and decanted for about 1 hour - little to no sediment. This wine is what I would describe and a typical Barossa Valley Cabernet (accepting that there are variations within the valley and between winemaking styles.)
  Medium weight, ripe, plump fruit without any particular blackcurrant or black olive nuances on the nose, yet the palate mouthfeel definitely says Cabernet. Some nice ripe berry fruit, beautifully integrated oak (at least now, noting some other's comments from 5 years ago), quite long and soft on the palate and through the finish, but sufficiently structured to hold great form with food.
  It is in a lovely drinking space now, yet capable of going on for at least a further 5 years without risk under screw cap - possibly longer.

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  3/14/2020 - galewskj wrote: 91 Points

  This is a very smooth cabernet, with chocolate, earth and reddish black fruit. This reminds me of the Napa cab style, with a lot of fruit and no heat at all.

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  10/27/2019 - galewskj wrote: 91 Points

  This is a very smooth cabernet, with chocolate, earth and reddish black fruit.

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  6/17/2019 - PIntag wrote: 87 Points

  Didn't enjoy this bottle as much as the last. Acidity seemed "fake" and stuck out too much. Generous tasty fruit, but not very well delineated and seemed muddled. A touch too much toast on the oak treatment for my palate. May need more time to integrate and come together.

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  3/23/2019 - galewskj wrote: 90 Points

  Decanted about 30 minutes. This time I definitely got some Australian influence, being eucalyptus and slight vegetation. However, this was still very smooth and not that big for Australia.

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