Riposte Sabre Pinot Noir 2023
- 93
- $38.99
- Drink by: 2024-2032
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This is the next step up from the team in their Pinotsphere, and while it is already drinking beautifully, putting this away in the cellar while drinking the current Dagger would work. Made from a range of clones which are all vinified discretely, the vineyards are located at Lenswood and Piccadilly in the Adelaide Hills. The individual components then spent time in French oak barrels, one quarter of them new, whereupon a barrel selection was made before the final blending. A very pale garnet hue, this is constructed in a more savoury style with hints of warm earth, florals, dry herbs, undergrowth and delicatessen meats. There is early complexity already evident and the wine is linear in structure with good focus, satiny tannins and bright acidity. Enjoy this over the next six to eight years.
Ken was born and bred in Brisbane, Queensland. He had a non-trendy, perfectly happy childhood, in a family convinced alcohol meant instant condemnation to Hades. But a break fishing on the Great Barrier Reef, and some good wine, started a serious obsession that eventually took over. It did not stop Ken being chastised later for drinking Pol champagne, disgusted he’d drink anything made by a Cambodian dictator. Now, Ken mostly writes on wine, champagne and spirits for various newspapers, magazines and books, but is perhaps best known for his work in The Courier Mail. He also has a little sideline writing on cigars, fishing, travel and food. When not writing, fly-fishing for trout in NZ or bonefish on the flats of Cuba, travelling or smoking cigars, he is no doubt following a variety of sporting teams – the occasionally glorious Queensland Reds rugby, the dysfunctional Washington Redskins, the dodgy Arsenal and especially revels in the world restored to its proper axis with the return of the Ashes to their rightful home.
