Riposte En Garde Pinot Noir 2024
- 92
- $55
- Drink by: 2025-2030
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The bright red-magenta vibrancy of colour is one big attraction with this wine. Thankfully, it keeps on impressing in a scent filled style with fresh red cherries, cranberry, dried herbs, a touch of undergrowth and lifted in a delightful bunch of roses and pressed flowers. This is one lovely, bright, fresh Pinot Noir with some potential for ageing. There will undoubtedly be a debate about whether to enjoy now or later. Now, you get to jump into some cherry-berry-cranberry flavours embraced in earthy, woody spices and chocolate with an added savoury note of ginger, honed in ripe tannins. It speaks beautifully of its Adelaide Hills address.
Jeni Port is one of Australia’s top wine communicators. Based in Melbourne, Jeni created the first wine column in the (then) Sun News-Pictorial before moving over to The Age and becoming that paper’s longest-serving wine writer. Over the years she has written for most Australian wine magazines and these days calls WinePilot home. She is also a Tasting Panel member on the Halliday Wine Companion. She was named Wine Communicator of the Year and Legend of the Melbourne Food and Wine Festival in 2014 and in 2018 Legend of the Vine. She is a founding board member of Australian Women In Wine and is the co-deputy chair of Australia’s Wine List of the Year Awards and China’s Wine List of the Year Awards.
