Riposte The Sabre Adelaide Hills Pinot Noir 2022
- 94
- $40
- Drink by: 2023-2031
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Another fine Pinot from the Adelaide Hills, from their favourite Lenswood grower, this time a blend of six different clones. Each of the clones has been harvested separately, cold soaked and hand plunged in open fermenters. Afterwards, pressing was to French oak barrels, 25% new. The final wine is a barrel selection. Deep crimson in colour, the nose offers spicy notes, fresh beetroot, red fruits and berries, with hints of freshly rolled cigars, warm earth and soy notes. Like this a lot. The wine is well focused with impressive length and satiny tannins. There is also a tiny flick of a bitter almond note on the finish, which lingers. Enjoy this for 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.
