Riposte The Foil Sauvignon Blanc 2025
- 90
- $24
- Drink by: 2025-2029
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One of the first 2025 vintage Sauvignon’s off the rank and it’s one vibrant, herbaceous dose of savvy pyrazines. Snow pea tendril, fresh pea shoots, grassy, green apple, citrus, lemongrass and honeysuckle aromas. It was a vintage that suited Adelaide Hills Sauvignon Blanc (among other varieties), and certainly brought some pronounced, brisk acidity to this style, adding precision and brightness to the palate. While there is little in the way of texture now, it is slowly developing. In the meantime, grapefruit, quince and crunchy, tart lemon pith flavours weave their way through green herbs and gooseberry across a taut, linear palate.
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.
