Swinney Syrah 2024
- 96
- $46
- Drink by: 2025-2037
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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.
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.
