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The Gatekeeper

Producer: The Gatekeeper
Style: Red
Vintage: 2006
Grapes: Shiraz 100%
Region: Australia < South Australia

PRICE: $12

Tasting Notes and Food Pairing Suggestions

  • Pink peppercorn-crusted pork tenderloin
  • Roasted baby rack of lamb with caramelized parsnips
  • Beef stew with cipollini onions and fingerling potatoes

If you're someone who prefers Old World wines to those from the New World, this is the Australian Shiraz for you. Spicy black pepper notes, typical of Northern Rhone Syrahs, open onto a sleek and linear palate of blue and black fruit that is ripe but not at all jammy or cloying. A bright acid core gives the wine nice focus in the mouth and serves as a refreshing reminder that not all Australian wines fall into the fruit bomb trap.

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