Allegiance The Artisan Coonawarra Cabernet Sauvignon 2024
- 93
- $50
- Drink by: 2025-2035
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2024 is proving to be an excellent vintage in the Coonawarra region for their legendary Cabernets. This example comes from a single vineyard in the south of the district. Part of the wine spent four months in tank with French oak staves, while the remainder had fourteen months maturation in French oak barriques. Opaque magenta in colour, the nose reveals notes of plums, cassis, chocolate, cigar boxes, mocha and a hint of vanillin oak. There is juicy acidity and very good length here. On the palate we see notes of graphite and licorice emerging. A wine of medium weight with sleek tannins and good drive. This is a ten year proposition.
Ken was born and bred in Brisbane, Queensland. He had a non-trendy, perfectly happy childhood, in a family convinced alcohol meant instant condemnation to Hades. But a break fishing on the Great Barrier Reef, and some good wine, started a serious obsession that eventually took over. It did not stop Ken being chastised later for drinking Pol champagne, disgusted he’d drink anything made by a Cambodian dictator. Now, Ken mostly writes on wine, champagne and spirits for various newspapers, magazines and books, but is perhaps best known for his work in The Courier Mail. He also has a little sideline writing on cigars, fishing, travel and food. When not writing, fly-fishing for trout in NZ or bonefish on the flats of Cuba, travelling or smoking cigars, he is no doubt following a variety of sporting teams – the occasionally glorious Queensland Reds rugby, the dysfunctional Washington Redskins, the dodgy Arsenal and especially revels in the world restored to its proper axis with the return of the Ashes to their rightful home.
