Allegiance Wines The Tiger McLaren Vale Shiraz 2023
$30, 14.5% alcohol, screwcap, McLaren Vale.
Plum and sultana flavours merge into peppercorn and toast. It’s a pretty simple formula but it’s ripe, well polished and satisfying. Orange rind and red licorice characters are here too, if you look hard enough, but this is essentially a medium-weight red wine with no rough edges. 90 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.
