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2020 Swinney Mourvèdre Syrah Grenache, Frankland River
2020 Swinney Syrah, Frankland River
A$36.75
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B18903V20
As is the case for all these wines, the fruit was hand-harvested and sorted, then sent to small wooden and stainless steel fermenters via gravity (with the inclusion of six percent Grenache and an eyedropper’s worth of Mourvèdre for added complexity). Naturally fermented with 18% whole bunches, the wine spent two weeks on skins prior to being pressed directly to fine-grained large format French oak (19% new). The wine was then bottled unfined and minimally filtered after 11 months in barrel.
From the fantastically farmed Swinney vineyard, syrah goes to older (mostly) larger format oak. Swinney for the winney.
Quite inky and dense, inward concentration in spades, blackcurrants, boot polish, charry woody spice, silty tannins and saline minerally detail going on. Firm texture in a way but lots of bouncy, bright fruit in that mix – tannins ripple glossy yet taut in the wine. Fresh but deep, dark, brooding too. Black olive, green herbs, the idea of how red earth tastes in this wine too. Serious red, seriously good.
94 points Mike Bennie winefront.com.au AUG21 Drink 2021 - 2032
Pressed direct to large-format French oak (13% new) and matured for 11 months. Sweet, perfumed black fruit on the nose, laced with blood and rust, serving up a potently engaging mix of characters that demand a 2nd and 3rd look. In the mouth the fruit is concentrated and dense, with very finely woven tea-like tannins that distinctly express graphite and coal dust ... a lot going on.
94 pts - Erin Larkin, Australian Wine Companion, January 2022
| Product/Service Sold Out | No |
|---|---|
| En Primeur | No |
| New Arrivals | No |
| Wine Type | Red Wine |
| Country | Australia |
| Region | Frankland River |
| Varietals | Syrah |
| Vintage | 2020 |
| Bottle Size | 750ml |
| Wine Points | 94 |
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