Allegiance Wines The Artisan Shiraz 2024
$50, 14.5% alcohol, screwcap, McLaren Vale.
Exactly what the doctor ordered. Warm, deep-set fruit flavours – think blackberries and plums – roll into notes of vanilla-cream and peppercorn, the net effect smooth, hearty, satisfying and delicious. One sip and you find yourself falling into its soft, cuddly embrace. Ripe, fully-integrated, licorice-infused tannin seals the deal. 92 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.
