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2023 Swinney 'Farvie' Syrah

The 2023 Farvie Wines will be released on the 17th of February and are available on allocation.

Mike Bennie, www.winecompanian.com, January 2025
"A magnificent syrah with dark fruits, charry spice, licorice, leafy herbal nuance, brined olive notes and distinct minerality on show. It feels medium bodied but the concentration and slip of meaty tannin lends fullness to the pitch-perfect mid-bodied feel. Tannins keep the wine slippery, refreshing, fine tuned and draw the wine long. There's a distinction and elegance at play. Perfumed, supple, incredibly layered syrah with regional typicity at the forefront. Take a bow." 96 pts

Matthew Jukes, The Fifty Finest Wines of 2024, www.matthewjukes.com, January 2025
"Finally, the featured wine in this extraordinary trio. 2023 Swinney Farvie Syrah employs 55% whole bunches, 13.7% alcohol, and the fruit is derived 70% Powderbark B2 and 30% Wilson’s Pool. This is a super-closed and incredibly combative wine, and all the action happens in pin-drop silence. This is a quiet assassin, and the tension throughout is remarkable. It is not easy to determine the grape variety on first taste, and nor should it be because the vineyard and its intense minerality speak louder than the flesh and skins of the grapes. The frictive layers of anti-fruit silently fall away to reveal a spectacular statuesque Syrah. Toned, lithe, brightly fruited and yet immovable, there is not a molecule out of place, and it stands riveted to the spot with a commanding gaze and unshakable temperament." 20+/20

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Wine Specs

Vintage

2023

Varietal

Syrah

Appellation

Frankland River

Harvest Date

3rd, 4th & 5th April 2023

Acid

5.84

3.53

Aging

10+ years

Bottling Date

February 2024

Residual Sugar

0.5 g/l

Alcohol %

13.7

Wine Profile

Tasting Notes

Dark inky purple in colour. On the nose - vibrant and expressive combining squid ink, white pepper, and nori with black mulberries and fresh dug truffles. On the palate - A wonderfully proportioned syrah capturing the freshness of blueberries and satsuma plums with roasted mixed spice and Szechuan pepper. Intense without being heavy, the palate is tightly wound and framed by distinctly ferrous gravelly tannins. Long and sumptuous yet light on its feet.

Vineyard Notes

This fruit was from dry-grown, vertically-trellised Syrah from our Powderbark B2 and Wilson Pool 801 garden project vineyard sites. Only a sub-section of soil in both blocks is farmed for Farvie in a way that both nourishes and balances the fruit to optimum levels to allow dry farming. The use of shadecloth on the side of the vines that receives the afternoon sun, and rigorous shoot positioning and bunch selection, further refines the unique expression so critical to the personality of this fruit.

Production Notes

The fruit was hand picked, berry sorted and gravity fed to a French oak vat and two demi-muids. We incorporated 55% whole bunches followed by wild fermentation to build structure and texture while promoting the bright and spicy aromatics. The wine spent 15 days on skins and was then pressed directly to fine grained, large format, seasoned French oak, and aged for 10 months prior to bottling. The wine was made with minimum effective Sulphites, is unfined and minimally filtered.

Other Notes

100% Syrah