Riposte En Garde Pinot Noir 2025
$55, screwcap, Adelaide Hills.
This rises in the glass nicely. It’s a strawberry-driven wine with plum wine jelly, sweet spice, mint and smoked cedar notes whispered through with potpourri and pink marshmallow. It’s attractive. It has a dry, well-structured integrity to it. And from the opening, perfumed aromas to the final, expended finish it feels both welcoming and well-crafted. 92 points.
Campbell Mattinson has been an independent journalist, wine critic and photographer for forty years. He founded The Winefront, is a former chief editor of the Halliday Wine Companion (and former editor of Halliday magazine), and is the only Australian to have won the Australian Wine Communicator of the Year Award more than once. He is 100% independent, and tastes between 5,000 and 10,000 wines each year, blind and in comparative brackets as often as is practicable.
Mattinson is also the founder of the Mattinson Photography business.
