Riposte The Sabre Pinot Noir 2022

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Sam Kim - Wine Orbit

This is sensually seductive and complex, showing sweet cherry, dried herb, olive, dried mushroom and toasted almond notes on the nose. The gracefully styled palate offers fleshy texture backed by beautifully infused tannins, finishing wonderfully long and engaging. Gorgeously harmonious and seamlessly flowing.

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Ken Gargett - WinePilot.com

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.

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Campbell Mattinson - The Wine Front

This is a bit of a return to form. It builds a complex array of flavours around the core of macerated red cherry fruit; there’s earth here, and undergrowth, and twigs, and beetroot, and a briney-sourness that works in context. Cedarwood oak is in play as well but it’s neat, appropriately applied, and helps to promote cohesion. This is a good drink.

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The Wine Collective - Tasting Panel

Ripe, rounded aromas of bright cherries, plum, strawberries, coupled with a savoury richness. Palate is smooth, silky and opulent, with gutsy, fine-grained tannins texturing the mouth. Holds it place on the finish with seductive allure.

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The Wine Collective - Tasting Panel

Sumac, green pepper, smoke and clove aromas. The palate is red fruited and lush, crunchy cranberries and raspberries for fruit, the spice continues, more oak notes such as cinnamon and nutmeg., with a touch of floral rose petal, finishing with more pepper and tomato leaf.