Allegiance Wines The Artisan Cabernet Sauvignon 2024

Written By Campbell Mattinson
Bottle of Allegiance Wines The Artisan Cabernet Sauvignon 2024.

Allegiance Wines The Artisan Cabernet Sauvignon 2024
$50, 14.5% alcohol, screwcap, Coonawarra.

This is a serious red wine. It’s sizeable, it’s rigidly firm, it’s dry at every turn and it’s arguably been made to be cellared. Blackcurrant, gravel, dark chocolate, Italian herbs and mint notes do all the talking, though all is spoken in a dry, gravelly, mouth-puckering voice. This wine needs either heart food or a good deal of time; the tannin in this wine will see it through for the long haul. 92 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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