Allegiance Wines The Tiger McLaren Vale Shiraz 2024
$35, 14.5% alcohol, screwcap, McLaren Vale.
This is a medium-weight shiraz with fresh plum and red cherry flavours as the main drivers and mint, fragrant herb, fennel and smoked meat notes as the extras. It’s uncomplicated but it has good mouthfeel and feels well-balanced throughout – the latter of which makes it both easy and satisfying to drink. 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.
