Allegiance Wines The Artisan Barossa Reserve Shiraz 2021

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

Allegiance Wines The Artisan Barossa Reserve Shiraz 2021
$65, 15.0% alcohol, screwcap, Barossa Valley.

This is a plump red wine with luscious, dark-berried fruit flavours rolling seductively throughout. This is a red wine to settle down with, and sink into. It tastes of plums, coffee beans, orange and roasted meats, with malty, toasty oak characters lingering through the aftertaste. Nothing satisfies quite so much as a full-bodied, smooth-skinned Barossa shiraz, and this is a good example. 93 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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