2021 Kaesler Avignon

95 POINTS

Dave Brookes - Halliday Wine Companion

The Avignon has long been one of my favourites from the Kaesler portfolio. Here its a blend of 48/27/25% grenache/shiraz/mourvédre from the cracking 2021 vintage. It's spicy, detailed and a joy to drink with pure, plummy and red-berried fruits cut with ginger spice, cola, earth, purple flowers and roasting meats. There is a wonderful sense of space and tension, with a bright line and savoury palate shape, finishing chalky with a plume of spice, raspberry and red plum.

92 POINTS

Kasia Sobiesiak - The Wine Front

Grenache Shiraz Mourvèdre. These grapes just come together. The blend starts with mixed berry coulis perfume lending sweetness but with strong underlying tension of iron rock and damp forest to balance in flavour. It’s ripe, spicy and with a wild edge. All the components mix in harmony and make a complete wine with evenly spread flavour, medium body, and just enough of everything.

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Angus Hughson - Vinous

This unashamedly ripe but balanced 2021 Avignon is a blend of Grenache, Shiraz and Mourvèdre, offering up plush and fleshy aromas of damson plum, dark chocolate and earthy spices. A freight train of dark fruit flavors follows, rich and mouth-filling with sandy tannins providing a good grip through to a fleshy finish. This is old-school done well.