Eight at the Gate Jillian Pearl Blanc de Blanc 2022

Written By Campbell Mattinson
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Eight at the Gate Jillian Pearl Blanc de Blanc 2022
$65, 12.5% alcohol, DIAM cork, Wrattonbully.

This wine is quite special. It’s complex, it’s rich, it’s seductive and it’s just plain more-ish. It’s the full box and dice. Lemon pie, cream, marshmallow and strawberry-like flavours cruise through the mouth in the most convincing – not to mention appealing – style. It’s a beauty. There’s a citrus-rind character to the finish and it works as the perfect exclamation mark. Bravo. 94 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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