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

This article was written by Campbell Mattinson, former chief editor of the Halliday Wine Companion book, former editor of Halliday magazine, former editor of Australian Sommelier Magazine and founder of the highly respected The Winefront site.

Mattinson has been an independent wine critic and photo-journalist since 1987. He’s the only Australian to have won the Australian Wine Communicator of the Year Award more than once. He’s a past winner of a Louis Roederer International Wine Media Award; is the author of the award-winning book The Wine Hunter; and is the author of the best-selling novel We Were Not Men. He’s also a winner of a St Kilda Film Festival Award (as writer-director) and is a former winner of the prized Best Australian Sports Writing Award.

Mattinson, who is 100% independent, puts a score out of 100 on every wine that he reviews. But what he’d rather do, is tell you the wine’s story.

https://www.campbellmattinson.com
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