Riposte Wines The Pinot Noir 2024
- 97
- $375
- Drink by: 2026-2037
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Legendary winemaker Tim Knapstein reckons he’s been working towards this Pinot for the best part of thirty-five years. There’s tremendous intensity and drive evident throughout. The aromas show a slightly truffly dark cherry combination with faint savoury notes. The palate is an incredibly powerful, yet precise and poised expression of this variety that captures so much of what Pinot Noir is stylistically all about. There’s that structural core, that fist, if you like, and yet around it is the velvet glove, to use an adapted cliché for sure. That rich fruit carries through with admirable restraint and control, with some slightly chalky notes tightening it up even more as it threads through to its long finish. So much to like about this wine.
Ray Jordan has been writing about wine for more than 40 years. His first articles were published in the early issues of national wine magazine Winestate in the late 1970s when he worked in Sydney as a newspaper correspondent. From 1989 Ray wrote more than 3000 columns as a regular newspaper wine columnist. He currently writes a regular column for the special business publication Business News and is one of the main contributors to national wine platform Wine Pilot. In 2017 Ray co-authored The Way it Was – A History of The Early Days of the Margaret River Wine Industry and previously wrote Wine in the Blood: Australia’s Family Wine Estates, published in Mandarin and English. In 2011 Ray was awarded WA Wine Press Club Jack Mann Memorial Medal for his contribution to the WA wine industry. His love of wine is as strong as his love of the blues and tasting the thousands of wines that cross his bench each year allows him to indulge in both.
