Allegiance Wine take fruit from a mature single vineyard at Vine Vale for their flagship Barossa Valley Shiraz, sourced from the good crew at Cooper Burns. Basket pressed off skins, malolactic fermented in barrel before mautration in a combination of French and American oak (25% new) hogsheads for 20 months.

Allegiance Wines, Unity, Shiraz, Barossa Valley, 2021

Deep garnet to purple. Fathoms deep nose of crushed ant, crushed rose petal, cedar, Christmas cake spice, liqueur chocolates, kirsch, creamy mocha and fresh coffee. Incredibly silky and supple. Flowing and smooth palate with bitter chary oak offsetting dark berry fruit, punctuated by woody spice. Sumptuous and decadent. With just a hint of minty freshness to clean the tail, this is a serious, layered wine that will give plenty over the next 5 years.

RRP: $100
Alc: 15%
Rating: 94/100

Wine sample courtesy of Allegiance Wines