Gentle Folk Syrah 2025

Written By Campbell Mattinson
Bottle of Gentle Folk Syrah 2025.

Gentle Folk Syrah 2025
$40, 14% alcohol, screwcap, Adelaide Hills.

There’s a carefree aspect to this wine – and intangible if ever there was one – and it makes for seductive drinking. It feels pure, natural and free-flowing, and it does so even as it delivers complex, savoury-edged flavour. This wine creates and exists within its own realm. It tastes of cherries, twiggy herbs, olives, saltbush, undergrowth, roasted nuts and crushed flowers, and amid all these nuances it still feels seamless and more-ish. You can guzzle (responsibly) this wine and, equally, you can ponder it.

Score: 95 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.

https://www.campbellmattinson.com
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