Allegiance Wines The Artisan McLaren Vale Reserve Shiraz 2022

Written By Campbell Mattinson
Mattinson review of The Artisan Reserve mclaren Shiraz 2021

Allegiance Wines The Artisan McLaren Vale Reserve Shiraz 2022
$65, 14.5% alcohol, screwcap, McLaren Vale.

The fruit has a strength to it and the tannin is fine-grained. Chocolate, toast and cedar notes thread their way through plum and black cherry, with a certain burnt, smoky, bushfire note rising as the wine breathes. The sweet fruit is the thing, the lift from mint notes as well. It drinks well, all round. 92 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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