Allegiance The Artisan Reserve Barossa Valley Shiraz 2022
- 92
- $65
- Drink by: 2025-2033
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Each release of this wine seems to offer an elegance that we don’t see in every Barossa Shiraz. The colour here is a crimson red, with the nose giving us notes of spices, mocha, blackberries, coffee beans, black fruits, aniseed and dried herbs. It lifts even further on the palate with juicy acidity and good energy, finishing with impressive length. Good now, better in a couple of years, and it will provide pleasure for at least the next six to eight years.
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.
