"Swinney is in the process of making a very powerful statement about the Frankland River region via the delivery of these world class wines."
Erin Larkin, Robert Parker Wine Advocate, 2023
Request an allocation of Farvie Wines via the link below.
"Swinney is in the process of making a very powerful statement about the Frankland River region via the delivery of these world class wines."
Erin Larkin, Robert Parker Wine Advocate, 2023
Request an allocation of Farvie Wines via the link below.
George John Alexander Swinney, affectionately known as Farvie, and his family settled at ‘Franklands’ in 1922. Today, George’s great grand-children, siblings Matt and Janelle, continue his legacy through their vineyards and wine label.
The Farvie wines, first released in March 2020 from the 2018 vintage, represent the highest quality expression of our family’s best vineyard sites. Our ambition is the creation of wines that sit alongside the best in the world for their variety while evoking a beautiful and singular image of our family home in Frankland River.
The wines are the result of a vineyard–focused philosophy of meticulous attention to site selection and precise grape growing practices. These include dry growing, organic farming principles, intensive shoot and fruit thinning, and careful, deliberate bunch selection from fruit growing either on the morning side of the canopy or protected by shade cloth.
Our 2023 vintage celebrates our sixth vintage of Farvie and all three wines have been reviewed by esteemed UK wine writer, Matthew Jukes, in 'The Fifty Finest Wines of 2024' (www.matthewjukes.com), in which he awarded the 2023 Farvie Syrah 20+/20 and both the 2023 Farvie Grenache and Mourvèdre 19.5/20. In the feature, Jukes writes:
"In 2023 the Farvie trio has done something near-impossible. They have already taken three wines at the highest level and improved their lot. It is easy to loosen the wheel nuts on a car but almost impossible to tighten them further. This Swinney has done. They are ultra-high-definition versions of previous vintages, and I take my hat off to viti (Rhys Thomas) and vini (Rob Mann) for communicating in sublime, choreographed harmony. Like Cerberus, I find it hard to choose one head from another, as all three are so spectacularly imposing. Like this mythical hound, they are all attached to the same elementally powerful body – the venerable soils in this unique corner of Frankland River."
Production of each Farvie wine is limited to just a few hundred cases per year.
Our 2023 Farvie Wines will be released on the 17th of February, 2025.