Riposte En Garde Pinot Noir 2024
$55, screwcap, Adelaide Hills.
This is a minty Pinot Noir with sweet red cherry and assorted roasted spice notes as the main drivers. There are twig-like characterstoo, tempered or complemented directly by red jelly notes. It’s easy to drink. It’s easy to like. The overt mint/spearmint characters may however polarise. 91 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.
