Scarborough Keepers of the Flame Shiraz 2023

Written By Campbell Mattinson
Bottle of Scarborough Keepers of the Flame Shiraz 2023.

Scarborough Keepers of the Flame Shiraz 2023
$100, 14.6% alcohol, screwcap, Hunter Valley.

There’s an intricacy to the tannin here. The fruit itself is both fresh and flowing, complemented as it is by creamy, smoky oak and subtle aromatic herb notes. This isn’t an especially ‘big’ wine, it’s more in the old Hunter Burgundy style, though of course it’s a modern take on it, and a beautiful one at that. Indeed this is an example of Hunter Valley shiraz at its classiest. Fresh fruit flavour, earthen complexities, velvety mouthfeel and both the structure and length to suggest that it will age magnificently. 95 points.

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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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