Allegiance Wines Barossa Unity Shiraz 2021

Written By Campbell Mattinson
Review of Allegiance Wines Barossa Unity Shiraz 2021

Allegiance Wines Barossa Unity Shiraz 2021
$120, 15% alcohol, screwcap, Barossa Valley.

There’s intense fruit flavour here but there’s also noticeable alcohol heat and a woody bitterness to the aftertaste. It tastes of saturated plums, vanilla cream, cedarwood and asphalt, with all the flavours sitting at the ultra ripe, slightly dessicated end of the spectrum. There’s a salt-like note here too, salted caramel or even salted nuts perhaps, which teams up with the bitterness but also helps to give the wine some of its kick. You’ve been forewarned. 90 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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Mattinson is also the founder of the Mattinson Photography business.

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