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

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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