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Swinney Mourvedre 2024
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TASTING NOTE: “This comes from dry-grown bush vines, was wild fermented, and spent eleven days on skins; matured in used, large-format oak barrels. Violet floral lift, scents of game meat, a good dose of cinnamon, garam masala, dried cranberry, dark cherry and cola. The palate is similarly set up – chewy and dusty with slender tannins, a core of dark fruit and woody spice, game meat finishes and is accompanied by herbs (fresh, dried and cool). It's a finely tuned expression, pure and fine boned, detailed with fruit, spice and savoury elements. Fantastic drinking.”
95 Points, Mike Bennie, Halliday
- ABOUT THE WINE: Echoing what has been said many times about Swinney’s Grenache, it is rare to find a Mourvèdre of this purity and distinction from Australian shores. This is Swinney’s fourth straight Mourvèdre bottling, and the wine is basking in the spotlight. The Mourvèdre is drawn from dry-grown bush vines on Wilsons Pool Vineyard, planted in the early 2000s on rich, gravelly-loam soils. The fruit was picked by hand when flavour and tannin were perfectly ripe, then sorted berry by berry and transferred via gravity to a single stainless-steel fermenter. It fermented with 18% whole bunches to highlight the variety’s “distinctive ferrous qualities, fine structure and wild spice.” The new vintage spent 11 days on skins before being pressed to fine-grained large-format French oak, where it matured for 11 months. Speaking to the sheer, visceral originality of this wine, Mann says that “there’s something of Swinney here that no one can replicate.” Enigmatic, maybe, but also very true. Bibendum
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ABOUT THE PRODUCER: The Swinney family have been farming their property in Frankland River for 100 years. Today the property is run by fourth generation brother and sister, Matt and Janelle Swinney. Bush vines litter the property. Riesling, Grenache, Syrah and Mourvedre are finding a very happy home on the ironstone slopes above the Frankland River. The Swinney vineyard represents modern viticulture interwoven with Old-World techniques, executed with precision through a combination of exhaustive manual work and state-of-the-art technology, and all underpinned by an environmental focus.
- COUNTRY: Australia
- REGION: Great Southern, Western Australia
- SUB-REGION: Frankland River
- VARIETAL: Mourvédre
- WINE STYLE: Red Wine
- WINEMAKER: Rob Mann
- CLASSIFICATION: Minimal Sulphites, Sustainable Farming
- CLOSURE: Screwcap
- ABV%: 13.7%
- SIZE: 750ml
