Eight at the Gate Sparkling Shiraz NV

Written By Campbell Mattinson
Bottle of Eight at the Gate Sparkling Shiraz NV

Eight at the Gate Sparkling Shiraz NV
$35, 13.5%, DIAM cork, Wrattonbully.

This wine is built on sweet, ripe fruit flavour but a peppermint character – which almost slides into choc-mint territory – adds real lift and life. Talk about drinkable. It’s soft, fruit-driven, has enough spread to the flavour profile to keep you engaged, and finishes dry. Along the way you find cardamon, plum and pink marshmallow flavours but really, who’s counting. This (sparkling red) wine has drinkability written all over it. 91 points.

Campbell Mattinson

This article was written by Campbell Mattinson, founder of The Winefront and mattinson, and former chief editor of Halliday.

When you pick up a wine book and see thousands of top-scoring wines, it’s hard to know which wine to choose. Mattinson guides you through this maze, giving you an honest view of the best Australian wines, the best wine stories, the best wine producers, the best value wines and simply, the best tasting wines. Importantly, Mattinson will tell you about the top-rated wines and also about the underrated wines. In short, Mattinson knows Australian wines inside and out.

Mattinson has been a photo-journalist since 1987. For the past 25 years he’s been a voice that you can trust when you’re looking for the best wines. 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, and is the author of the award-winning book The Wine Hunter. He’s not afraid to put a score beside a wine. But what he’d rather do, is tell you the wine’s story.

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