Gentle Folk Basket Range Chardonnay 2024

Written By Campbell Mattinson
Bottle of Gentle Folk Basket Range Chardonnay 2024.

Gentle Folk Basket Range Chardonnay 2024
$75, 13.1% alcohol, DIAM cork, Adelaide Hills.

This chardonnay is drastically good. It’s mellifluous. It has texture, flavour, intensity and length but it’s the wine’s softness and character that really seduces. It tastes of lemon, white peach, pears and custard powder, with honeysuckle notes floating over the top. It’s gorgeous. If you met it in a bar you wouldn’t be able to stop yourself from asking it for its phone number or instagram handle or LinkedIn account or anything to keep it as part of your life. 95+ points.

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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 the highly respected The Winefront site.

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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