Riposte Peacemaker Pinot Noir 2025
- 93
- $75
- Drink by: 2026-2033
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Hits the mark and deserves big ticks all round whether it’s a question of structure, overall quality, fruit concentration, ability to age or immediate drinking approachability right now. That’s a lot of ticks. Sweet cherry, berry, cranberry fruit aromas come lightly spiced with hints of dusty beetroot, earth. Vibrant fruit follows on the palate nicely structured in fine, sinewy tannins with spice, sprigs of herbs and earth. Smooth running all the way to a long finish making Peacemaker a strong drink-now prospect, but there is also much to celebrate with further time in bottle. Will require a hard but no doubt enjoyable decision in the end, on its future.
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.
