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

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.

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Mattinson is also the founder of the Mattinson Photography business.

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