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Swinney Farvie Syrah 2024

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Swinney Farvie Syrah 2024
Producer Swinney
Region, Country Frankland River, Australia
Bottle Size 750ml
Case Size 6
Product Code 25996-750

The Farvie Syrah is drawn from dry-grown, vertically trellised vines from the Powderbark B2 and Wilson Pool 801 ‘garden project’ vineyard sites. Only a sub-section of the soil in both blocks is earmarked for Farvie, with the vines fostered to nourish and balance the fruit, enabling dry farming. The use of shade cloth on the side of the vines that receives the afternoon sun, and rigorous shoot positioning and bunch selection, further refine the unique expression that is so critical to this fruit's personality. Here, Rob Mann used 67% whole bunches, and the wine aged in fine-grained, large format barrels for 11 months.

Mann fosters the Farvie plot’s innate savoury, ironstone and ferrous character, pushing it to take a lead role in the wine. Importantly, no new oak is used in the Farvie Syrah. “I’m more interested in perfume, florals and personality than I am in the wine having heavy density and richness,” he explains. “By using no new oak, you have to think a bit harder about how to build complexity, structure and perfume in Syrah,” he goes on. “We build that complexity through viticulture, bunches and time on lees.” 13.8% alcohol.

Swinney Farvie Syrah 2024

Reviews

“This is bold, grunty and svelte at once. To borrow a phrase: it’s Frankland River Grange. It’s pounded with tannin, dark berried, creamy to the touch and inflected with mint, bitumen, violets, iodine and red earth. As ‘much’ as it is on the palate, the follow through of the finish is exceptional. It was a dry old creek before blood and plums started charging through it. That’s the vibe here. Salt of the earth, as a drink. Aussie bush and Aussie berries, soft and extracted, dry and elongated.”
96 points, Campbell Mattinson, The Wine Front
“Ripe dark fruits, a few red berries scattered among them, salted licorice, fresh pouches of Port Royal tobacco and the leather and polish of an old soldier’s parade boots. In the mouth it’s all dark fruits and crushed rocks, shaped by sinew and sculpted muscle rather than opulent flesh. The tannins take no prisoners, firm, high-tensile and seriously long. 13.8% alcohol.”
95 points, Nick Ryan, The Australian Magazine

Reviews

“This is bold, grunty and svelte at once. To borrow a phrase: it’s Frankland River Grange. It’s pounded with tannin, dark berried, creamy to the touch and inflected with mint, bitumen, violets, iodine and red earth. As ‘much’ as it is on the palate, the follow through of the finish is exceptional. It was a dry old creek before blood and plums started charging through it. That’s the vibe here. Salt of the earth, as a drink. Aussie bush and Aussie berries, soft and extracted, dry and elongated.”
96 points, Campbell Mattinson, The Wine Front
“Ripe dark fruits, a few red berries scattered among them, salted licorice, fresh pouches of Port Royal tobacco and the leather and polish of an old soldier’s parade boots. In the mouth it’s all dark fruits and crushed rocks, shaped by sinew and sculpted muscle rather than opulent flesh. The tannins take no prisoners, firm, high-tensile and seriously long. 13.8% alcohol.”
95 points, Nick Ryan, The Australian Magazine

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