Gentle Folk, Vin de Sofa 2020, 750ml
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Gentle Folk, a growing yet extremely boutique label produced by Gareth & Rainbo Belton in the Basket Range pocket of the Adelaide Hills, is a philosophically and stylistically distinct project that in its three years of business has been embraced dramatically & passionately by local & international wine lovers & trade alike.
Gareth & Rainbo, two genuinely gentle folk have a connection to their home and a focus on what is local to them. In these wines that connection & desire to express the immediacy of this place in the glass is clear. The wines are made from pristine fruit from organic & sustainably farmed vineyards all visible from the home winery’s outlook. This sense of the hills is what is at the core of the wines, far more so than a statement of varietal composition. In fact, the wines are labelled with no varietal reference whatsoever.
The largest source of fruit to Gentle Folk is the Scary Gully Vineyard in Basket Range, which is managed organically by Gareth. The organic Norton Summit Vineyard is managed by friend Mark Whisson. A third vineyard, Brodericks, provides Petit Verdot. The wines are vinified, raised and bottled at Gareth & Rainbo’s winery, situated on a downhill slope at the rear of their Basket Ranges home. All wines are naturally fermented with no additions except homeopathic doses of sulphur prior to bottling. The wines are not fined or filtered and are moved only by gravity.
PRODUCER: Gentle Folk
STYLE: Red
VARIETALS: Merlot
ABV: 13%
SIZE: 750ml Bottle
ORIGIN: Adelaide Hills, SA
Buy in-store, Click & Collect & Delivery
IN-STORE: if you live in Brisbane drop into one of our two awesome shops. You’ll find My Beer Dealer Caxton Street under our mothership Brewski – it’s one of the few drink-in bottle shops in Brisbane complete with 10 taps for growler and can fills. And My Beer Dealer Eagle Junction is in Clayfield in Brisbane’s north (right next to Eagle Junction train station) with a killer range of beers, wines and spirits.
ONLINE: Choose from our free Click & Collect service from either shop or we’ll package your order up and deliver it pretty much anywhere in Australia for $10 (for up to 20kg). If you’re in a major city your parcel will travel with Aus Post Wine Service.
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Meet the Dealers
We’re Antoinette, Natasha, Matt and Simon. We’re good booze lovers just like you. We started our beery journey in 2013 when we opened the famous Brewski on Brisbane’s infamous Caxton Street. In 2018 we opened our first My Beer Dealer under Brewski, it’s one of the few drink-in bottle shops in Queensland and we’re super chuffed with it. 2020 was a big year for us, we launched our online store (you’re looking at it) and opened our second bricks ‘n mortar shop next to Eagle Junction station in Brisbane’s Clayfield (we’re super chuffed with it as well). Both of these have allowed us to complement our awesome beer range with our other passions of good wine and good spirits.
As we’re a small family run business we prefer to support other family businesses and small producers, ensuring that when you visit us it’s not the same old, same old. And by shopping with us we hope you get to feel good about supporting a whole heap of small businesses, just like we do. So if you do choose to buy through us, thank you from us and thank you from our family of suppliers (and thanks for reading this far, our copywriter is stoked).
