Riposte En Garde Pinot Noir 2025
- 94
- $55
- Drink by: 2026-2030
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En Garde translates from French as “on guard”. Despite its delicately coloured and perfumed onset, it is indeed ready to defend itself from a thirsty attack, with attractive preserved strawberry and raspberry notes, then descending into the realm of poppy seed, red liquorice, and a lovely spiciness of star anise and pink peppercorn. It sits comfortably between a tonic, herbal character and red fruit compote, with spice intermingling throughout, resulting in a finely poised Pinot with a silky tannic structure and more than decent presence, finishing fruity, juicy and focused. A lovely Pinot from the Hills indeed.
Lisa Cardelli is an Italian-born wine professional who has been based in Melbourne since 2010. She worked as a sommelier in some of the city’s leading fine-dining restaurants for over ten years before leaving hospitality to become a wine sales representative. Lisa is now a journalist for Il Globo, the newspaper for Italians in Australia and around the world, where she also curates her own wine column. She continues to write about wine for both local and international publications and is on track to become one of the few prolific bilingual wine writers in Australia. A certified WSET Educator, she teaches at various venues across Melbourne. She also judges at local wine shows and for the prestigious Australia’s Wine List of the Year Awards and China’s Wine List of the Year Awards. Lisa was the recipient of the 2022 Wine Communicators of Australia award for Best Published Feature Article, a finalist for the same award in 2024, the recipient of the 2022 Sydney Royal Wine Professional Development Scholarship sponsored by the Len Evans Foundation, and one of twelve carefully selected Len Evans Scholars in 2024.
