Riposte The Sabre Pinot Noir 2023
$39, 13.5% alcohol, screwcap, Adelaide Hills.
Lovely wine. Great drinking. Fragrant, spicy, well served by sweet-sour cherry flavours and with enough silk to its texture to make it feel fancy. On top of this is a woody, smoky, fresh-sawdust note, which fits in beautifully with the energy of the fruit. This is a winner. 93 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.
