2023 Gentle Folk Monomeith Pinot Noir

Highly Rated NICK RYAN TOP 100
Floral, fruity, and minerally Pinot Noir from one of the Basket Range's most iconic lo-fi winemaking ventures.
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The 2023 Monomeith Pinot Noir comes from one of the most distinctive sites in the Adelaide Hills, tucked into its own cool valley on the top ridge of Ashton. This organically farmed vineyard, cared for by Patrick and Vienna O’Sullivan, benefits from an east-west orientation, with the vines catching the best of both the morning and afternoon sun. 

With 25-year-old vines at its core, this wine is all about elegance. Expect a heady mix of violet and lilac on the nose, along with the cool minerality that’s becoming a hallmark of this part of the Hills. The wine was fermented with wild yeasts in open-top vessels, using a combination of de-stemmed berries and whole clusters to bring out the varietal’s purest expression.

Aged for 10 months in oak (20% new), it’s got the structure to develop further in the bottle, but it’s equally compelling right now.

With 2,354 bottles produced, the 2023 Monomeith Pinot Noir is a beautifully crafted, expressive wine from one of the coolest and most exciting sites in the Adelaide Hills.

96 Points & Top 100 Wines of 2024
"Gareth Belton really matters. His Gentle Folk wines are poetically expressive and expertly made. This alluringly aromatic pinot from a vineyard near Ashton is finely spiced and gorgeously supple. A wine that speaks of place, not ego."
- Nick Ryan (The Weekend Australian)

95 Points
"It’s cool, it’s succulent, it’s got some slurp to it too... It goes the distance, it feels svelte and coils serpent-like through the palate. A savoury undertow of brambles and earth also there. It does many, many things, and just feels right and righteous overall. Oh boy.."
- Mike Bennie (The Wine Front)

96 points - "As the dust settles after the hype tornado that made Basket Range in the Adelaide Hills the epicentre of hipster wine culture for a while, a clearer picture emerges of who really matters in this part of the world. Gareth Belton really matters. His Gentle Folk wines are poetically expressive and expertly made. This alluringly aromatic pinot from a vineyard near Ashton is finely spiced and gorgeously supple. A wine that speaks of place, not ego." - Nick Ryan (The Weekend Australian)

95 Points - "It’s cool, it’s succulent, it’s got some slurp to it too. Purple fruits, mulberry, dark cherry, sour and tart pops of pomegranate jewels and a wash of alpine herbs and light white pepper over it all. It goes the distance, it feels svelte and coils serpent-like through the palate. A savoury undertow of brambles and earth also there. It does many, many things, and just feels right and righteous overall. Oh boy.." - Mike Bennie (The Wine Front)

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    A medium bodied Pinot , with elegant complexity.

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One of the great and distinctive vineyards of the Adelaide Hills, and arguably 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 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 for two to three weeks followed by 10 months in oak, 20% new, before racking to tank for three months and bottled.

Harvest date: 20 April 2023

Bottled: 15 May 2023

Alc: 12.3%

pH: 3.7

TA: 5.8 g/L

Production: 2354 bottles

Price Bracket $51 to $100
Type Red
Body Light Bodied
Variety Pinot Noir
Country Australia
Region Adelaide Hills
Australian State SA
Feature High Score
Reviewed By The Wine Front
The Weekend Australian
Critic Score 95
96
Size 750ml
Vintage 2023
Closure Cork

Gentle Folk

Gareth and Rainbo Belton are the Gentle Folks, both in name and in sensibility. They are gentle, soulful people, both originally seaweed experts, who turned their hands to farming grapes with an organic and sustainable approach. Today they are crafting some of the most legitimately exciting and exceptional Pinot Noir and Chardonnay in the Adelaide Hills and are firmly rooted in the upper echelon of Australia's lo-fi wine scene.

Their wines cover multiple sub-regions across the Adelaide Hills. There are no additions during the winemaking process, save for a splash of SO2 at bottling to keep the wines pristine as they travel from the Beltons' home to yours. The worlds of fine wine and natural wine collide in the Gentle Folk range. They are beautiful people making increasingly breathtaking wines that you definitely want to check out.

Gareth Belton in one of his vineyards - Basket Range, Adelaide Hills, SA Gentle Folk

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