Allegiance Wines The Artisan Grenache 2022

Written By Campbell Mattinson
Mattinson review of Allegiance Wines The Artisan Grenache 2022

Allegiance Wines The Artisan Grenache 2022
$40, 14.5% alcohol, screwcap, McLaren Vale.

This wine feels sure-footed in the way it lays down ripe, red-berried flavour. It serves redcurrant with infusions of woodsy spice, and while there’s a subtle meatiness to the palate these characters are washed through by the juiciness of the fruit. There’s lively aroma here – the wine smells good – and enough finesse to the palate to make you feel as though you’re in good hands. The finish is both warm and blessed with fine-grained tannin; it all feels neat and well done. 91 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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