Eight at the Gate Family Selection Shiraz 2022

Written By Campbell Mattinson
Bottle of Eight at the Gate Family Selection Shiraz 2022.

Eight at the Gate Family Selection Shiraz 2022
$48, 14.8% alcohol, screwcap, Wrattonbully.

The quality of the fruit here is excellent. It’s ripe, it’s strong, it’s bold and it’s balanced. It tastes of peppercorn and blackberry, plum and saltbush, with cedar-spice characters adding that bit extra. The tannin here too is beautifully well integrated, as are the musky-vanillin notes running through the aftertaste. This is a deeply satisfying red wine. 93+ 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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