Allegiance Wines The Artisan Reserve Cabernet Sauvignon 2024

Written By Campbell Mattinson
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Allegiance Wines The Artisan Reserve Coonawarra Cabernet Sauvignon 2024
$70, 14.5% alcohol, screwcap, Coonawarra.

A significant bloom of flavour combines beautifully here with a curl of authoritative tannin. Rose petal and violet notes – combined with sweet, smoked cedarwood characters – adds both lift and an impression of ‘extra’. There’s a twiggy, briary, herbal bass note through the back palate but the fruit washes straight on over it. This is an impressive 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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