It’s time to introduce The Australian Wine Club’s legendary Annual Dozen offers for 2024 – and among the wines selected for our highest-tier deal this year is a brilliant Barossa shiraz loaded with personality, attitude and, well, named after a “bogan”. Kaesler The Bogan Barossa Valley Shiraz 2021 is one of the headline acts in our Super Premium Six offer – a collection that will have you revving your engines with the excitement of a petrol head waiting for the start of the Bathurst 1000. Included in our exclusive offer is a $250 Clare shiraz from vines planted an improbable 157 years ago; a big-boned McLaren Vale classic from the 2014 vintage and a super-soft Western Australian cabernet that exudes class.
It’s not only super premium but super high-rated as well: three wines scored 97 points, one 96 and two 95 in the Halliday Wine Companion. As we said, this is our best offer of the year: six wines with an average bottle price of $109 going for just $37.99.
That’s 65 per cent off and a saving of $426. But who’s our bogan? For the answer we must head back to school, back to Adelaide University’s Roseworthy campus in the mid-1980s where a quiet young bloke from Sydney’s western suburbs turned up to study winemaking. With his flannelette shirt and slightly scruffy looks, Reid Bosward quickly earned the nickname “The Bogan” from his classmates, among them Peter Gago, who would go on to find fame as Penfolds’ distinguished chief winemaker.
Over the year.