2023 Swinney Farvie Syrah 750Ml Bottle

A little reductive at first, plum skin and salted licorice, pipe tobacco and beef broth. Black olive and boot polish. Savoury, tight, earthy. With time, black and blue berries emerge, and the wine takes on a little flesh as well. But a firm, ironstone spine remains. Incredible focus and precision.”
97 points, Nick Ryan, The Weekend Australian

"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 Matthew Jukes, The Fifty Finest Wines of 2024