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Built from the ground up, Swinney’s rosé is made from meticulously tended vines, explicitly managed to create this wine—as is the case for the top rosé producers of Southern France. Mourvèdre calls the shots in the 2024 rosé to the tune of 86% of the blend. Vermentino plays a key cameo to bring racy freshness, while Grenache adds a dash of cherry-fruited flesh.
Most of the fruit is drawn from dry-grown bush vines on Powderbark Vineyard’s ironstone gravel hilltop. With a focus on freshness, the fruit from these vines was picked on the cusp of full maturity. The Mourvèdre was then pressed as bunches using a traditional, ultra-light Champagne cycle along with a small percentage of Vermentino for its freshening acid streak and a splash of flesh-giving Cinsault. The juice was run directly to seasoned French oak barriques and fermented with indigenous yeasts.
Grown and made with no concessions—that is, with the same level of detail that goes into each of this grower’s wines—it’s beautifully perfumed, with a creamy texture and tight grip, backed by substance and structure.