Swinney - Farvie Grenache 2023 [98+ Punkte Parker]

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Swinney - Farvie Grenache 2023:

Dieser Wein duftet sehr nach feinem rotem Burgunder, mit Hagebutten und roten Kirschen in der Nase. Er besitzt eine reichhaltige Textur - superschön, raffiniert, mit subtiler, integrierter Säure und einer zusätzlichen Schicht von Raffinesse. Er hat noch ein langes Leben vor sich, aber er ist schon jetzt unwiderstehlich. Man sagte Matt Swinney, er sei verrückt, als er in der Region Frankland River Grenache anpflanzte. Der "Albany Doctor"-Wind weht direkt vom Südlichen Ozean durch das Flusstal, was bedeutet, dass die Nachmittage und Abende im Sommer ausgesprochen kühl sein können. In Verbindung mit der verlässlichen Sonneneinstrahlung fördert dies die lange, langsame Reifung, die viele der besten Weinregionen der Welt aufweisen. Hatte Matt recht? Reift der Grenache? Auf jeden Fall, und zwar zuverlässig: unter kühlen, aber trockenen und sonnigen Bedingungen und unterstützt durch die kargen Eisensteinschotterböden, die gut entwässerten Hanglagen und die etablierten Buschreben. Der Farvie Grenache ist das Ergebnis einer lächerlich sorgfältigen Auslese, bei der jeder Rebstock dreimal besucht wird, um die Früchte auszuwählen, die den "Sweet Spot" der optimalen Reife erreicht haben - weder zu sehr der Sonne ausgesetzt, noch zu schattig.

98+ Punkte - Robert Parker's Wine Advocate:

2023 Swinney • Farvie Grenache

Issue date 13th March 2025, The Wine Advocate

Reviewed by: Erin Larkin

Rating: 98+
Release Price: NA
Drink Date: 2025 - 2043

98+ Points - Erin Larkin (RobertParker.com):

"The 2023 Farvie Grenache bears all the hallmarks of the tremendous 2023 vintage: It has levity and grace, detail and freshness, without weight. It is intense, with a core of pure fruit, and the wine has a lower pH and higher acid thanks to the seasonal conditions, with 30% whole bunches and fermentation in old oak, with maturation in large-format old oak. The vineyard is highly attractive; there are bush vines on the crest of a sloping, sun-drenched hill, and the wines convey that windswept freshness and structure. I love the fruit here—a core of raspberry, strawberry, blood plum and even cranberry—yet it is the tannins that I must look to for critical assessment; here, they are pliable, fresh, spicy, savory and veritably plume through the fruit. This is seamless structure and ductile length at its best. This is an exciting wine, all the more so given it is from the spectacular 2023 vintage. We have so little framework for premium Grenache outside of South Australia, and yet here, in Frankland River, the high-tide mark is set. I'll be saying this frequently throughout the 2023 releases from Western Australia: this is the best Grenache made yet under the Farvie label. 14% alcohol, sealed under screw cap." - Wine Advocate

19.5/20 Matthew Jukes, The Fifty Finest Wines of 2024, www.matthewjukes.com, January 2025:
“2023 Swinney Farvie Grenache (30% whole bunch, 13.8 %alcohol, 100% Wilson’s Pool fruit) has a stunning nose, and it is brutally firm on the palate. It slams your taste buds shut only to open them again to see if they are still alive, and then it invades again without hesitation with extremely forceful and powerful purple fruit notes. It tastes darker than it looks. The colour is a vivid carmine, and this sanguineous colour leads one to anticipate a lighter style, but the acid profile and bitterness deliver a cut lip and bruised nose. The ironstone gravel soils make this an arresting and unforgiving wine. The sudden impact and collateral sensorial damage make it riveting. It shocks and then amazes and almost immediately soothes. It is the angriest and most demonic Grenache with the kindest heart. Half an hour later, the nose is singing, and the brittle edges calm a touch, making it evocative and grown-up, making the more open and icecreamy Grenaches seem uncomplicated and two-dimensional. The tension on the finish is what sets this wine and its siblings apart. It is unique from these varieties’ perspective. This is one of the most impressive Farvie Grenaches to date, and it continues a run of wines that defies comprehension.” 19.5/20

99 Punkte - Ray Jordan, Business News:

”A remarkable Grenache that captures much of the winemaking and viticultural philosophy with this wine sourced from the bush vine Wilson’s Pool Vineyard. The fruit was hand-picked, berry sorted and gravity-fed to French oak fermenters where 30 % whole bunches and wild fermentation have accentuated the bright spicy characters. The oak is all fine-grained large format season French which did its thing for 10 months. The oak continues to play a more subordinate role with a greater percentage of whole bunches being used these days. Coupled with the earlier picking approach it captures the coolness and crunchy freshness style that is becoming the hallmark of the style. The palate is unlike any other Australian Grenache with its precise arrow-straight acidity fired with telling accuracy to a target that eventually reveals deeper succulent fruit flavours. It is still tightly wrapped with firmness and tension. A wine of a touch of brash youthfulness and serious intensity."

99 points, Ray Jordan - Business News

98 Punkte - Nick Ryan, The Weekend Australian:

“Cherries, dark raspberries, a little balsamic, some boysenberry exoticism and ethereal spices. Pure and deeply layered. A fragrant fleshiness up front, a plushness to the mid-palate with exquisite gravelly tannins pushing through velvet sheaths to shape the wine and lengthen the finish.”

98 points, Nick Ryan - The Weekend Australian

• HERSTELLER: Swinney Wines
• LAND: Australien
• REGION: Great Southern / Frankland River
• JAHRGANG: 2023
• WEINTYP: Rotwein
• REBSORTE: 100% Grenache
• AUSBAU: 10 Monate französische Eiche
• ALKOHOLGEHALT: 14,0 %
• VERSCHLUSSTYP: Stelvin
• GROESSE: 0,75 Liter
• INVERKEHRBRINGER: WineDreams, D-46147 Oberhausen