Gentle Folk Onkaparinga Sangiovese 2024

Written By Campbell Mattinson
Bottle of Gentle Folk Onkaparinga Sangiovese 2024.

Gentle Folk Onkaparinga Sangiovese 2024
$70, 13.5% alcohol, DIAM cork, Adelaide Hills.

The trick with sangiovese is to make it both light and meaningful at once. It’s like a joke that’s funny because it’s true. This sangiovese from Gentle Folk shows how it’s done; it tastes of boysenberries, red and black cherries, cola, toast, sweet spice and peppercorns, with mint notes never too far away. But it’s the way it drives in both a mouthwatering way and in a tense, tannic way; it sets sail for the open seas but never loses sight of the horizon. It’s a beauty. 94 points.

Campbell Mattinson

This article was written by Campbell Mattinson, founder of The Winefront and mattinson, and former chief editor of Halliday.

When you pick up a wine book and see thousands of top-scoring wines, it’s hard to know which wine to choose. Mattinson guides you through this maze, giving you an honest view of the best Australian wines, the best wine stories, the best wine producers, the best value wines and simply, the best tasting wines. Importantly, Mattinson will tell you about the top-rated wines and also about the underrated wines. In short, Mattinson knows Australian wines inside and out.

Mattinson has been a photo-journalist since 1987. For the past 25 years he’s been a voice that you can trust when you’re looking for the best wines. 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, and is the author of the award-winning book The Wine Hunter. He’s not afraid to put a score beside a wine. But what he’d rather do, is tell you the wine’s story.

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