Gentle Folk Ashton Chardonnay 2023

Written By Campbell Mattinson
Bottle of gentle folk Ashton chardonnay 2023

Gentle Folk Ashton Chardonnay 2023
$70, 12.3% alcohol, DIAM cork, Adelaide Hills.

Gentle Folk has a habit of producing exquisite wines and this is another example. Indeed this is a chardonnay with more than its fair share of spark. It tastes of pears, creams, nuts, florals and wax, the aftertaste then edged in quartz. It’s alive with chardonnay fruit flavour, it’s got a real heartbeat there, but the walls of its veins are savoury. The drinkability of this wine is off the charts. 94 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 a respected 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 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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