Riposte Wines The Pinot Noir 2024

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.