Gentle Folk

Written By Campbell Mattinson
Gentle Folk symbol as an official Mattinson 10-Star Winery.

Gentle Folk is a Mattinson 10-Star Winery.
Only the best of Australia’s best wineries are ranked as a Mattinson 10-Star Winery.

The simple fact is that Gentle Folk makes beautiful wine, consistently, every time. In a relatively short period of time it has become one of Australia’s best wineries; in recent years it would be hard to find a better-performing winery. Chardonnay and pinot noir, both as expressions of the Adelaide Hills region and as an expression of a single site, are consistently outstanding, as is barrel-fermented sauvignon blanc. Syrah and sangiovese, particularly the former, are both routinely magical. If you’re not buying or exploring the wines of Gentle Folk, you should be.

Campbell Mattinson

This post was written by Campbell Mattinson. Mattinson is a former chief editor of the Halliday Wine Companion book, former editor of Halliday magazine, former editor of Australian Sommelier Magazine and founder of The Winefront business. He is the author of five books on wine – four of which were bestsellers (The Wine Hunter, the Big Red Wine Book 2008, the Big Red Wine Book 2009, and the Big Red Wine Book 2010).

Mattinson is also the founder of Mattinson Photography.

Campbell Mattinson has been an independent journalist, wine critic and photographer for forty years. He’s the only Australian to have won the Australian Wine Communicator of the Year Award more than once. He’s a past winner of a Louis Roederer International Wine Media Award; is the author of the award-winning book The Wine Hunter; and is the author of the best-selling novel We Were Not Men. He’s also a winner of a St Kilda Film Festival Award (as writer-director) and is a former winner of the national Best Australian Sports Writing Award. In 2026 three of his photographs were short-listed for the World Food Photography Awards.

Campbell Mattinson, who is 100% independent, has tasted between 5000 and 10,000 wines each and every year for the past 25 years. He tastes blind, in comparative brackets, as often as is practicable.

Campbell Mattinson is a journalist, a photographer, a filmmaker and a wine critic. In all of these mediums his prime motive is to tell people's stories.

https://www.campbellmattinson.com
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