Allegiance Wines Bowrider Prosecco NV
$22, 11.5% alcohol, cork, region unspecified.
This wine is fruity and soft, but not simple or overly sweet. It’s easy to like but it has integrity, in flavour profile terms. It tastes of grapes, bread, melon and citrus, a subtle crushed fennel note in there too. It works well. It’s fresh, aromatic and generous with its flavours. 90 points.
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.
Mattinson is also the founder of the Mattinson Photography business.
