2025 Gentle Folk Piccadilly Pinot Noir

Juicy, lighter-bodied Piccadilly Pinot from vines planted in 1980, with wild strawberry and fine tannins. Ready to enjoy now.

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Description

Gentle Folk adds a new vineyard to its Pinot Noir range with Woods Hill in Summertown, but the vines themselves have been there since 1980. This established Piccadilly Valley site gives the 2025 a juicy, lighter-bodied style that’s ready to enjoy now.

At 560 metres, the vineyard grows on light loamy clay over sandstone, with schist and quartz scattered through the ground. Five Pinot clones contribute to the wine, bringing together fruit from more than four decades of vine growth.

Fermentation included both whole berries and whole bunches, followed by nine months in French oak, 20% new. Another three months in tank allowed the wine to settle before bottling.

Wild strawberry and fresh red fruit lead, with a little bramble character and fine tannins keeping everything in shape. Mature Piccadilly vines and an approachable, fruit-led style make this a particularly inviting addition to Gentle Folk’s single-vineyard range.

From Woods Hill Vineyard in Summertown, a new site for Gentle Folk and an established vineyard in the Piccadilly Valley. The wine shows red fruit, wild strawberry and bramble, with fine tannin. Juicier and lighter-bodied than our other single-vineyard Pinot Noirs, it is approachable now.

Vineyard
Vineyard: Woods Hill Vineyard, Summertown
Planted: 1980
Clones: D5V12, MV6, 114, 115 and 777
Elevation: 560m
Aspect: North-south
Soil: Light loamy clay over sandstone, with extensive schist and quartz rocks and rubble

Winemaking
The fruit was fermented as whole berries and whole bunches before pressing, then aged in French oak (20% new). The wine spent nine months in oak followed by three months in tank before bottling.

Technical Details
Harvest date: 17 March 2025
Bottled: 3 March 2026
Alc: 13.5%
pH: 3.65
TA: 5.8 g/L
Oak: French oak (20% new), nine months
Production: 3,742 bottles

Price Bracket $51 to $100
Type White
Body Light Bodied
Variety Pinot Noir
Country Australia
Region Adelaide Hills
Australian State SA
Alcohol 13.5%
Size 750ml
Vintage 2025
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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