Riposte THE Pinot Noir 2024

Written By Campbell Mattinson
Bottle of Riposte The Pinot Noir 2024.

Riposte THE Pinot Noir 2024
$375, 13.5% alcohol, screwcap, Adelaide Hills.

According to Tim Knpasstein the 2024 vintage “produced the best parcels of Adelaide Hills Pinot Noir we have seen in the past twenty years”. Eighty-seven barriques of Pinot Noir were made at Knappstein/Riposte. Sixty-seven of these barrels made it into Riposte The Sabre Pinot Noir. Only three barrels (of 87) made it into this Riposte THE Pinot Noir 2024 release.

I could review this wine is two words: it’s fabulous. It’s the fruit, the complexity and the length of the finish that brings me to this conclusion, most definitely, but then it’s the formation of the tannin, as the flavours wash through, that gets me excited the most. This is one hell of a serious bottle of Pinot Noir. It’s meaty, cherried, spicy and floral; it has gravitas; it crashes through the shore of the finish with complete conviction. 96 points.

Campbell Mattinson

This article was written by Campbell Mattinson, former chief editor of the Halliday Wine Companion book, former editor of Halliday magazine, former editor of Australian Sommelier Magazine and founder of both the highly respected The Winefront site (founded 2002) and Mattinson Photography.

Mattinson has been an independent wine critic and photo-journalist since 1987. He’s the only Australian to have won the Australian Wine Communicator of the Year Award more than once. He’s a past winner of a Louis Roederer International Wine Media Award; is the author of the award-winning book The Wine Hunter; and is the author of the best-selling novel We Were Not Men. He’s also a winner of a St Kilda Film Festival Award (as writer-director) and is a former winner of the prized Best Australian Sports Writing Award.

Mattinson, who is 100% independent, puts a score out of 100 on every wine that he reviews. But what he’d rather do, is tell you the wine’s story.

https://www.campbellmattinson.com
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