Riposte The Foil Adelaide Hills Sauvignon Blanc 2024
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- $24
- Drink by: 2025-2027
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A most attractive version of Adelaide Hills Savvy, showing just how promising this vintage is. Pale lemon hue, this is deeply aromatic with juicy lemon curd notes to the fore. There are spices and stone fruit touches with vibrant acidity, giving the wine a knife-edge quality to it. Full of flavour, it finishes with hints of citrus, grapefruit and the tropicals. There is decent length to it. Drink now and for two 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.
