Allegiance Wines The Artisan Reserve Cabernet Sauvignon 2023

Written By Campbell Mattinson
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Allegiance Wines The Artisan Reserve Cabernet Sauvignon 2023
$65, 14.5% alcohol, screwcap, Coonawarra.

This is a big wine, particularly in Coonawarra cabernet terms, and it’s also a beautiful one. It’s alive with blackcurrant, chocolate, red licorice and mint flavour, while toasty-chocolatey-creamy oak helps tie to it all together, and to present it in immaculate form. The smell, the favour and the feel of this wine all feel generous and satisfying. There’s a lot of wine here. And all of its flavours are delicious. 94 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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