Gentle Folk 2025 Duo

Sumptuous wine with cut and thrust, plenty of flavour, cooling saline minerality, light toasty spice, salted cashew, preserved lime, juicy red apple, some just-ripe stone fruits; very precise in its way but has a nice slapped bass line of funky stuff too. Packs in lots of character and then has a high refreshment factor, is the gist. Complexity written into the thread of the tasting/conversation/drinking. So darn gulpable too. Wicked drink. Great chardonnay. MIKE BENNIE, thewinefront.com.au

A succulent yet dark fruited pinot noir. Black cherry, tart plum, charry cinnamon, cola notes, alpine herbs, Worcestershire sauce and charcoal scraped on slate kind of minerality. Evocative stuff. Medium weight-ish, chewy in texture, juicy at its core. Sweet fruit poking through savouriness in a pleasing mesh of both. Quite the experience, an almost syrah-like feel to the wine. Lovely drinking. MIKE BENNIE, thewinefront.com.au