Riposte The Foil Sauvignon Blanc 2025
$24, 12.5% alcohol, screwcap, Adelaide Hills.
There’s some substance to the mid-plate flavour but the style remains crisp and refreshing. This is a good savvy blanc. It tastes of gooseberry and pears with lemongrass and fragrant herb notes on top, and while it’s frisky there’s also enough flavour to sink your teeth into (so to speak). 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.
