Allegiance Wines Unity Coonawarra Cabernet Sauvignon 2024

Written By Campbell Mattinson
Bottle of Allegiance Wines Unity Coonawarra Cabernet Sauvignon 2024.

Allegiance Wines Unity Coonawarra Cabernet Sauvignon 2024
$120, 14.5% alcohol, screwcap, Coonawarra.

Mint and licorice characters, served strong and clear, sink into blackcurrant, tobacco, bitter herbs, walnuts and redcurrant. This wine is bright, bold and succulent at once, with pitch perfect integration of fruit, tannin, acid and chocolatey oak. The fruit here is indeed swoon-worthy. The feeling of freshness is, in the context of concentration, excellent. The walnut and herb notes here might distract some, but from start to finish we’re looking at a high quality wine. 93 points.

Campbell Mattinson

This article was written by Campbell Mattinson, former chief editor of the Halliday Wine Companion book, former editor of Halliday magazine, former editor of Australian Sommelier Magazine and founder of the highly respected The Winefront site.

Mattinson has been an independent wine critic and photo-journalist since 1987. He’s the only Australian to have won the Australian Wine Communicator of the Year Award more than once. He’s a past winner of a Louis Roederer International Wine Media Award; is the author of the award-winning book The Wine Hunter; and is the author of the best-selling novel We Were Not Men. He’s also a winner of a St Kilda Film Festival Award (as writer-director) and is a former winner of the prized Best Australian Sports Writing Award.

Mattinson, who is 100% independent, puts a score out of 100 on every wine that he reviews. But what he’d rather do, is tell you the wine’s story.

https://www.campbellmattinson.com
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