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. It’s a wine of fresh fruit flavour, earthen complexities, velvety mouthfeel and both the structure and length to suggest that it will age magnificently. 95 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.

https://www.campbellmattinson.com
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