2024 Piccadilly Chardonnay

A new vineyard for us in 2024, the St James vineyard sits just below Mount Lofty in the heart of Piccadilly. True to style, this wine has the classic Piccadilly power and flair along with citrus, melons, ripe fruit, a hint of new oak and impressive acid…a complete package and the reason this part of the Hills is often referred to as the “Grand Cru” section.

Vineyard: St James, Piccadilly
Planted: 1996
Clones: 76, 95 & 10V5
Elevation: 525m
Aspect: South East
Soil: Light loamy clay over sandstone with extensive sandstone and quartz rocks and rubble

Vinification: Whole bunches were crushed and pressed into to tank for settling overnight before racking off solids to barrel. The wine spent 11 months in French oak, 20% new, before racking to tank for three months and then bottled. 100% malolactic fermentation.

Harvest date: 16 March 2024
Bottled: 23 May 2025
Vineyard location: 34°58’24”S 138°43’35”E
Alc: 13.7% pH: 3.35 TA: 5.7 g/L
Production: 1843 bottles

The Wine Front review by Campbell Mattinson

Published on 3 November 2025

'From a single site in Piccadilly on clay quartz sandstone.

This is both a rich release and a release that needs some extra time – to integrate further, as much as anything. It’s going to be stellar in a few years. It tastes of white and yellow peach, tonic water, cedarwood oak and toast, with spearmint, salted chalk and crushed rock characters in the mix too. The mouthfeel of this wine and the power of fruit are both of emphatic note. There’s some glory to this chardonnay.'

95 Points

2024 Scary Gully Chardonnay

Scary Gully has a fine boned line from the shallow rocky soils its grown on high up in Forest Range. The wine is all about the minerality with hints of lime, fennel seeds, alpine hebs and white peach. Its driven, it’s distinct, it’s one of the great sites in the Adelaide Hills. Sadly, the yields from 2024 were minuscule and there are limited bottles, but the resulting wine has length and drive we have not seen before from this site.

Vineyard: Scary Gully, Forest Range
Planted: 1994
Clones: i10v1 & Entav 84
Elevation: 620m
Aspect: South East
Soil: Quartz rubble, siltstone, sandstone and clay

Vinification: Grapes were whole bunch pressed into to tank for settling overnight before racking off solids to barrel. The wine spent 11 months in French and Austrian oak, 20% new, before racking to tank for three months and then bottled. 100% malolactic fermentation.

Harvest date: 29 March 2024
Bottled: 23 May 2025
Vineyard location: 34°57’15”S 138°47’03”E
Alc: 13.2% pH: 3.36 TA: 5.7 g/L
Production: 1455 bottles

The Wine Front review by Campbell Mattinson

Published on 4 November 2025

'This is from an elevated site (620 metres) that was planted in 1994.

Excellent wine. Gentle Folk is an outstanding producer full stop, but it’s especially good with chardonnay. Nougat, white peach, popcorn, nashi pear and cedar characters come whispers with honey, brine and toast. There’s both a power and a presence to this wine, along with excellent/exceptional length. Give this another couple of years in bottle and this will be quite something.'

95+ Points

2024 Monomeith Pinot Noir

One of the great and distinctive vineyards of the Adelaide Hills, and certainly one of the coolest. Monomeith sits in its own very cool valley on the top ridge of Ashton and the vines benefit from an east-west orientation, where part of the vineyard gets the morning sun and the other half the afternoon sun. This results in a wine with great depth, complexity and all the classic aromatics of great Adelaide Hills Pinot noir.

Vineyard: Monomeith, Ashton
Planted: 1996
Clones: MV6, 777, 114 and 115
Elevation: 530m
Aspect: E and W
Soil: Light loamy clay over sandstone with extensive quartz

Vinification: 20% whole cluster open top fermentation with twice daily pumpovers for two to three weeks followed by pressing and then 10 months in French oak, 20% new, before racking to tank or three months and bottled unfined and unfiltered.

Harvest date: 20 March 2024
Bottled: 26 May 2025
Vineyard location: 34°56’13”S 138°44’34”E
Alc: 14% pH: 3.57 TA: 6.0 g/L
Production: 1734 bottles

2024 Scary Gully Pinot Noir

The Pinot noir at Scary Gully is one of the highest and oldest in the Adelaide Hills and sits upon a ridge of sandstone and quartz . The steepness of the site, and hence “Scary”, means there are often some serious farming challenges in wet years. However, the 2024 season was mild and dry, and although yields were low, the grapes were pristine, and the resulting wine is beautifully balanced, perfumed and pure, all hallmarks of a great season for the site.

Vineyard: Scary Gully, Forest Range
Planted: 1984
Clones: MV6, D5V12, POMMARD and GM8
Elevation: 560m
Aspect: West, East & North
Soil: Quartz, sandstone & clay.

Vinification:20% whole cluster open top fermentation with twice daily pump overs for two to three weeks followed by pressing into French oak for 10 months, 20% of the barrels were new. The wine was then racked to tank for three months before being bottled unfined and unfiltered.

Harvest date: 11 & 18 March 2024
Bottled: 26 May 2025
Vineyard location: 34°57’13”S 138°47’14”EAlc: 13.8% pH: 3.54 TA: 6.1 g/L
Production: 2134 bottles

The Wine Front review by Campbell Mattinson

Published on 3 November 2025

'It’s the fine-grained tannin that really gets you over the line. It’s attached to complex fruit, and undergrowth, and saltbush, and assorted herb and umami notes, but it’s the finesse of that tannin and the way the fruit keeps on flowing through it that makes you stop to admire. there’s also a layer of smoky, cedarwood oak evident in this wine but, given an extra year or two, this too will sink in and down, and this wine will then feel complete.'

95 Points

2024 Little Creek Pinot Noir

Little Creek sits in its own valley just over the hill from Monomeith -but it is its own beast. The vine density is double and the soil muchmore rocky that that of its neighbours. This usually shows throughin the wine having more fruit density, with much darker and earthiercharacters. This is true again in 2024 where the near perfect growingseason, although low yielding, has grown a wine that is true to LittleCreek, yet with a great purity that seems to be common in the vintage.

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Vineyard: Little Creek, Norton Summit
Planted: 1987 & 1990
Clones: MV6, D5V12, Martini & 777
Elevation: 500m
Aspect: North & South
Soil: Quartz over sandstone & clay.

Vinification:The fruit was fully destemmed before being fermented in open top vats for two weeks with twice daily pump overs. The fermentation lasted for two weeks before being pressed to French oak barrels, 10% new, for 10 months. After this, the wine was racked to tank for three months before being bottled unfined and unfiltered during its second winter.

Harvest date: 06 March 2024
Bottled: 26 May 2025
Vineyard location: 34°55’42”S 138°44’19”E
Alc: 13.4% pH: 3.62 TA: 5.9 g/L
Production: 1619 bottles

2024 Onkaparinga Valley Sangiovese

Its so great to be able to work with grapes that are as loved and meticulously farmed as these twenty-seven year old vines from the boniest and highest section of the Turnbull Family Vineyard in Charleston. This is the second rendition of this wine and its a ripper. Some more meatiness and red fruit than the cool and late 2023 vintage, but still showing plenty of delicate aromatics, spiciness and tannins. Its such a great variety for the region and we hope to see more of it going into the ground and mouths in the future.

Vineyard: Turnbull, Charleston
Planted: 1998
Clones: H6V9
Elevation: 460m
Aspect: North
Soil: Sandy loam over siltstone & sandstone

Vinification: 100% destemmed open top fermentation for three weeks before closing the lid and sealing for three and a half more months. We only use the free run, which is aged in a mixture of terracotta and French oak barrels for 10 months, one of these being new, before being blended and bottled unfined and unfiltered.

Harvest date: 28 March 2024
Bottled: 27 May 2025
Vineyard location: 34°55’23”S 138°55’17”E
Alc: 13.5% pH: 3.45 TA: 5.2 g/L
Production: 1995 bottles

2024 Father's Milk Gamay Pinot Noir

It is always with mixed emotions that we release this collaboration wine with our neighbors at Ochota Barrels. But one thing is always assured... there will be a very long lunch at every step of the way, kid chaos, dog madness, nice wine, cat memes, tins of cold beer that taste like cold beer...and a little nip of Calvados at the end. This will be happening again today as we label and box up this years wine. A great Friday ahead.

Just the way Taras would have loved it.

Its once again a blend of Piccadilly Gamay planted by Taras way back before Gamay was cool, as well as Pinot noir from Monomeith. 100% whole bunch 100% no worries.