Allegiance Wines The Artisan Coonawarra Cabernet Sauvignon 2022
- 94
- $40
- Drink by: 2023-2033
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The fruit for this fine Coonawarra Cabernet spent ten days on skins before ten months maturation in new and used oak. The wine is a very dark maroon with flecks of purple. At this stage, it is still quite closed and certainly needs time to blossom, but it will be a star when it does. We have notes of black fruits, plums, cloves, leather and a slightly dusty note – think of handfuls of warm terra rossa earth. The palate sees the emergence of soy, licorice and chocolate notes, a slippery texture, very good length and satiny tannins – everything is in place for the future with a hint of sour cherry on the finish. This is worth cellaring and when it is ready, should plateau nicely for a decade.
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.
