Riposte Peacemaker Pinot Noir 2025
AU$70, 13.5% alcohol, screwcap, Adelaide Hills.
This is a firm, creamy, well-fruited pinot noir offering stewed red cherry flavours infused with orange rind, mint, chocolate and woodsy spice notes. It has a bit of presence and a bit of grunt, within a clear varietal context, and an assertive spread of fine-grained tannin too. It’s satisfying and more. 92 points – Campbell Mattinson.
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.
