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.

Campbell Mattinson

This article was written by Campbell Mattinson, former chief editor of the Halliday Wine Companion book, former editor of Halliday magazine, former editor of Australian Sommelier Magazine and founder of the highly respected The Winefront site.

Mattinson has been a respected wine critic and photo-journalist since 1987. 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; is the author of the award-winning book The Wine Hunter; and is the author of the best-selling novel We Were Not Men. He’s also a winner of a St Kilda Film Festival Award (as writer-director) and is a former winner of the prized Best Australian Sports Writing Award.

Mattinson puts a score out of 100 on every wine that he reviews. But what he’d rather do, is tell you the wine’s story.

https://www.campbellmattinson.com
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