Eight at the Gate Shiraz 2022
$30, 14.7% alcohol, screwcap, Wrattonbully.
Sweet, ripe, red cherried fruit flavour is delivered with creamy mouthfeel and inflections of pepper, toast and cloves. It’s a warm, generous and enjoyable red wine; there’s nothing over the top about it, but it still delivers plenty, and both feels and tastes good. 91 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.
