Allegiance The Fighter Tempranillo 2024
$30, 14% alcohol, screwcap, Hilltops.
This is a medium -weight wine of character and interest. It’s driven by cherry-plum fruit flavours but roasted nut, violet, cola and sweet spice notes are key influences, in the best of ways. This is a dry red, well structured, with a prettiness to its fruit and indeed to its overall profile. It’s an easy wine to recommend. 92 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.
