Allegiance Unity McLaren Vale Shiraz 2024
$120, 14.5% alcohol, screwcap, McLaren Vale.
This is such a weighty shiraz. It’s blackberried and inky and drenched in iodine and washed through with rusty tannin. It carries saltbush in its highlights and fresh redcurrant in its heart. Cedar-sawdust and marshmallow notes swing throughout as well, in a balanced and complementary way. There’s a lot of wine here. 94 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.
