Allegiance Wines Unity Margaret River Cabernet Sauvignon 2022
- 95
- $100
- Drink by: 2023-2038
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Bottle after bottle proves why Margaret River is such a world class region for Cabernet. This is another cracker. Selected from vineyards from the Wilyabrup and Wallcliffe sub-regions. The fruit was destemmed and then fermented for ten days on skins; 30% had a lengthy maceration. The wine saw nine months maturation in French oak barriques, 20% new. Crimson/purple, there is a wonderful nose here – plums, blackberries, cassis, aniseed and a hint of graphite. This is all class, the winemaker should take a bow. Fine use of oak, this is a medium weight style, impeccably balanced with silky tannins and such length! A cracker. Drink for ten to fifteen 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.
