Gentle Folk Little Creek Pinot Noir 2024

Written By Campbell Mattinson
Bottle of Gentle Folk Little Creek Pinot Noir 2024 on a white background.

Gentle Folk Little Creek Pinot Noir 2024
$75, 13.4% alcohol, DIAM cork, Adelaide Hills.

This is a fine-boned Pinot Noir with complexity to burn and the length to go with it. Personally I’d stick this in the cellar and wait a wee while – for which patience I’d expect to be greatly rewarded. It’s strung with herb, smoked meat, earth, briar and complex spice notes, though it’s all run on rails of strawberry, red cherry and woodsmoke. Tannin, sinewy, is a particular highlight. If I haven’t yet made it clear: the territory we’re in here is excellent, most especially if you’re patient. 93+ points.

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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