Allegiance Wines The Foreman Coonawarra Cabernet Sauvignon 2023

Written By Campbell Mattinson
Review of Allegiance Wines The Foreman Coonawarra Cabernet Sauvignon 2023.

Allegiance Wines The Foreman Coonawarra Cabernet Sauvignon 2023
$30, 14.5% alcohol, screwcap, Coonawarra.

This takes some time to hit its straps, so give it a chance to breathe – or pour it into a jug, and then back into the bottle – before tucking in. It tastes of blackcurrant, gravel, ozone, bay leaves and assorted dried herbs, and it has a good bit of grunt to it, both via its fruit and via its tannin. In fact it has a sinewy, muscular quality to it. It drinks better with food than it does on its own, but it’s a pretty decent wine all around. 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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