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

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.

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