Gapsted Estate Saperavi 2022

Written By Campbell Mattinson
Bottle of Gapsted Estate Saperavi 2022.

Gapsted Estate Saperavi 2022
$65, 14.5% alcohol, screwcap, Alpine Valleys.

This red wine is both bold and slender at once. It offers bold, dark, almost inky berried fruit flavours, but then it’s also strung with herb and tobacco-like notes, and it then finishes with a leafy, peppery burst. Characterful, it most certainly is. It’s keen with tannin, as this variety often is, but it feels well crafted and well balanced. You’d expect this wine to improve with a little extra bottle age too. 92 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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