Scarborough Keepers of the Flame Shiraz Viognier 2023

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

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

This wine is both bold and elegant, floral and meaty, juicy and sinewy – all at once. If you called it the perfect red wine you wouldn’t be far wrong. Black berries and roasted plums, sweet earth notes, pepper, peppercorns, smoky oak and a firm surety to the tannin. It’s excellent, if not better than that. The “finish” of this wine is superb. Scarborough have produced a ripper here. 96 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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