Eight at the Gate Shiraz 2021

Written By Campbell Mattinson
Bottle of eight at the gate shiraz 2021.

Eight at the Gate Shiraz 2021
$28, 14% alcohol, screwcap, Wrattonbully.

If you like a bit of pepper in your shiraz, as many do, then you’ll enjoy this wine. It’s cool climate in style, in that it’s alive with black/white pepper, capsicum, tobacco and general twiggy spice notes, but then there’s also a medium-weight fruitiness in play, which helps to keep those spice notes marching along. It’s enjoyable. A whisper of vanilla adds some cream to the mouthfeel. This wine is light in shiraz terms but it drinks nicely. 90 points.

Campbell Mattinson

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.

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Mattinson is also the founder of the Mattinson Photography business.

https://www.campbellmattinson.com
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