Allegiance Wines Bowrider Sparkling Cuvee NV
$22, 11.5% alcohol, DIAM cork.
What you get here is a crisp, refreshing bottle of sparkling wine with bursts of citrus and nectarine, mostly, with subtle notes of hay, strawberry and yeast. It’s not the most complex sparkling wine but it’s dry, direct, fresh and zippy. In short, it does the job nicely. 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.
