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

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.

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