Swinney Grenache 2024
- 95
- $46
- Drink by: 2025-2033
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From seemingly out of the blue, this Estate has quickly established itself as one of the leaders in the Grenache revival, making some stellar examples. From dry grown vines on their Wilson’s Pool Vineyard, the team use 40% whole bunches and wild yeasts. The wine spends eleven months on lees in older, large format oak before bottling. Crimson purple in colour, the nose opens with fragrant aromas of raspberries and cherries. The wine has a delightful creaminess to it. We have notes of herbs, redcurrants, a hint of animal skins and red fruits. Beautifully crafted, there are very fine, if ever so slightly grainy tannins. Excellent balance and persistence, this is a cracker. Drink over the next eight years.
Ken was born and bred in Brisbane, Queensland. He had a non-trendy, perfectly happy childhood, in a family convinced alcohol meant instant condemnation to Hades. But a break fishing on the Great Barrier Reef, and some good wine, started a serious obsession that eventually took over. It did not stop Ken being chastised later for drinking Pol champagne, disgusted he’d drink anything made by a Cambodian dictator. Now, Ken mostly writes on wine, champagne and spirits for various newspapers, magazines and books, but is perhaps best known for his work in The Courier Mail. He also has a little sideline writing on cigars, fishing, travel and food. When not writing, fly-fishing for trout in NZ or bonefish on the flats of Cuba, travelling or smoking cigars, he is no doubt following a variety of sporting teams – the occasionally glorious Queensland Reds rugby, the dysfunctional Washington Redskins, the dodgy Arsenal and especially revels in the world restored to its proper axis with the return of the Ashes to their rightful home.
