8K Ancient Red 2024

Written By Campbell Mattinson
Bottle of 8K Ancient Red 2024.

8K Ancient Red 2024
12.5% alcohol, cork, Kakheti/Georgia.

This is a wine of soft tannins and sure fruit sweetness. It has an exaggerated fruitiness, as they say, but it’s also well shaped and drifted with attractive herb notes. It’s a wine that does not shy away from the sweetest of its fruit, and indeed embraces it, and the result is both juicy and voluptuous. The short description of this wine is that it’s round, sweet-fruited and affordable. It was made to be a crowd pleaser and that’s exactly what it is.

Campbell Mattinson

This article was written by Campbell Mattinson, founder of The Winefront and mattinson, and former chief editor of Halliday.

When you pick up a wine book and see thousands of top-scoring wines, it’s hard to know which wine to choose. Mattinson guides you through this maze, giving you an honest view of the best Australian wines, the best wine stories, the best wine producers, the best value wines and simply, the best tasting wines. Importantly, Mattinson will tell you about the top-rated wines and also about the underrated wines. In short, Mattinson knows Australian wines inside and out.

Mattinson has been a photo-journalist since 1987. For the past 25 years he’s been a voice that you can trust when you’re looking for the best wines. He’s the only Australian to have won the Australian Wine Communicator of the Year Award more than once. He’s a past winner of a Louis Roederer International Wine Media Award, and is the author of the award-winning book The Wine Hunter. He’s not afraid to put a score beside a wine. But what he’d rather do, is tell you the wine’s story.

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