Allegiance Wines The Artisan Reserve Cabernet Sauvignon 2022

Written By Campbell Mattinson
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Allegiance Wines The Artisan Reserve Coonawarra Cabernet Sauvignon 2022
$65, 14.5% alcohol, screwcap, Coonawarra.

The flow here is good. So too is the spread through the finish, the mark of a good wine. This tastes as much of blackberry as of blackcurrant, though juicy boysenberry and blueberry fruit characters help to wash it all along and keep the flavours moving. Peppercorn, mint and sweet cedar are all welcome flavours here as well; from start to finish this wine feels in good order. Indeed it’s hard to see this wine as anything other than a quality Coonawarra Cabernet Sauvignon. 93 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 an independent 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, who is 100% independent, 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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