Eight at the Gate Pinot Gris 2024
$22, 12.2% alcohol, screwcap, Wrattonbully.
As they say in the classics: happy days. This wine is fun and fruity in the best of ways. It tastes of grapes and apples, lime and pears and while flavour is its thing, it also feels soft as it glides through your mouth. In short, it’s fun, easy and good. 90 points.
Campbell Mattinson has been an independent journalist, wine critic and photographer for forty years. He founded The Winefront, is a former chief editor of the Halliday Wine Companion (and former editor of Halliday magazine), and is the only Australian to have won the Australian Wine Communicator of the Year Award more than once. He is 100% independent, and tastes between 5,000 and 10,000 wines each year, blind and in comparative brackets as often as is practicable.
Mattinson is also the founder of the Mattinson Photography business.
