Eight at the Gate Family Selection Cabernet Sauvignon 2022
$48, 14.5% alcohol, screwcap, Wrattonbully.
This is a study cabernet with blackcurrant and blackberry flavours driving through herb and sweet tobacco notes. It’s perfumed on the nose and rich through the palate, with assertive tannin taking charge through the finish. There’s a lot of muscle and a lot of flesh to this hearty red wine. 92 points.
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.
Mattinson is also the founder of the Mattinson Photography business.
