Swinney Syrah 2024

The fruit here hails from both their Powderbark and Wilson’s Pool Vineyards and is a mix of clones and massale selection. 28% whole bunches, wild yeasts and eleven months in larger format French oak, 8% of which is new. The colour is a gleaming purple. The nose exhibits notes of leather, spices, herbs, cloves, aniseed, tapenade, mulberries and cranberries. Gorgeous texture which gives the wine the impression that one is drinking silk. There are the finest satiny tannins, and lots of them. Excellent balance, incredible length and impressive persistence, all combine to make this an absolutely superb Frankland River Syrah. Enjoy over the next 12 years.