Riposte The Sabre Pinot Noir 2024

Written By Campbell Mattinson
Mattinson review of Riposte The Sabre Pinot Noir 2024.

Riposte The Sabre Pinot Noir 2024
$39, 13.5% alcohol, screwcap, Adelaide Hills.

This release of Riposte’s The Sabre Pinot Noir is meaty and floral and lovely. It’s complex in a charming way and openly accessible, but with nuanced extras. It tastes essentially of red and black cherries but with woodsmoke, sweet spices, purple flowers and those aforementioned deli meat characters all making positive contributions. There’s a touch of velvet to the mouthfeel too. This wine is on song. You can buy with confidence. 93 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.

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Mattinson is also the founder of the Mattinson Photography business.

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