Gentle Folk Monomeith Pinot Noir 2024
$75, 14% alcohol, DIAM cork, Adelaide Hills.
Humdinger of a wine. Complex, fresh, autumnal, more-ish and harmonious. All the ducks, all in a row. Earth, sweet smoke, autumn leaves, boysenberry, sweet red and black cherries and cedar. It has fruit and undergrowth, treble and bass, midtones and flavour-infused tannin. It’s as convincing as it is elegant and delicious. Yes, damn, please. 95 points.
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.
Mattinson is also the founder of the Mattinson Photography business.
