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 article was written by Campbell Mattinson, former chief editor of the Halliday Wine Companion book, former editor of Halliday magazine, former editor of Australian Sommelier Magazine and founder of both the highly respected The Winefront site (founded 2002) and Mattinson Photography.

Mattinson has been an independent wine critic and photo-journalist since 1987. 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 prized Best Australian Sports Writing Award.

Mattinson, who is 100% independent, puts a score out of 100 on every wine that he reviews. But what he’d rather do, is tell you the wine’s story.

https://www.campbellmattinson.com
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