Gentle Folk

Written By Campbell Mattinson

Gentle Folk is a Mattinson 10-Star Winery — Campbell Mattinson's highest honour.
Founded by two marine scientists turned winemakers, it has become, in barely a decade, one of the most in-demand labels in Australian wine.

Gentle Folk makes beautiful wine, consistently, and in remarkably short order has become one of Australia's best wineries. Its Chardonnay is the true measure of the range — both as an Adelaide Hills blend and, more remarkably, as single-site releases — while its barrel-fermented Sauvignon Blanc (grown at 500+ metres above sea level) is one of the most serious, textural takes on the variety made anywhere in the country. Pinot Noir matches them stride for stride, and Syrah and Sangiovese round things out, the former, in particular routinely magical.

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Gentle Folks reviews on this site.
Gentle Folk reviews on The Winefront site (86 reviews).

Gentle Folk is a Mattinson 10-Star Winery – the highest honour awarded by Australian wine critic Campbell Mattinson. 10-Star status recognises one thing: the quality of the wine in the glass, every glass, across the range. The full list of 10-Star Wineries constitutes Australia's Best Wineries.

Campbell Mattinson

Campbell Mattinson has been an independent journalist, wine critic and photographer for forty years. He founded The Winefront, is a former chief editor of the Halliday Wine Companion (and former editor of Halliday magazine), and is the only Australian to have won the Australian Wine Communicator of the Year Award more than once. He is 100% independent, and tastes between 5,000 and 10,000 wines each year, blind and in comparative brackets as often as is practicable.

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Mattinson is also the founder of the Mattinson Photography business.

https://www.campbellmattinson.com
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