Riposte The Sabre Pinot Noir 2025

A fresh and youthful Adelaide Hills Pinot, not a surprise given it is from the 2025 vintage, for which the team use a range of clones. These are made discretely and see maturation in French oak, around 1/4 of which is usually new. The final wine is a blend of the best barrels. In the end, the wine turns out to be a little more muscular than the initial impression from the nose might suggest. A vibrant crimson/purple colour, the nose offers bright fruits, warm earth, mushrooms, florals, raspberries and dark cherries with a pleasing savoury note. Seamless in structure with a line of juicy acidity, there is good length here and the wine finishes with firm tannins. No reason it won’t provide pleasure for the next ten years.