Gentle Folk Adelaide Hills Chardonnay 2025
$45, 13% alcohol, screwcap, Adelaide Hills.
This is a stunningly attractive chardonnay, full stop. The fruit feels beautifully ripened, the flesh is real, the savoury top notes are better than icing and there’s such a joyous juiciness to the finish. This is chardonnay as an elixir or as an essence. It’s beautiful. 94 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.
