Eight at the Gate Cabernet Sauvignon 2021

Written By Campbell Mattinson
Mattinson review of Eight at the Gate Cabernet Sauvignon 2021.

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

Cabernet is often at its best when it doesn’t try too hard. As grape varieties go it’s one of the more inherently complex, and so just letting the fruit express itself is usually enough to do the trick. This is a handy example. The berry flavours are ripe and red, it feels medium-bodied all around, pine and mint notes add something extra, and toasted spice notes finish it off. It’s just a lovely medium-bodied drink. 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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