Swinney

Swinney is a Mattinson Ten Star Winery.
Only the best of Australia’s best are ranked as a Mattinson Ten Star Winery.

When the Swinney winery gets it right its wines are as good or better than just about anything produced in Australia. That is, it’s best wines are the best of the very best. The 2023 Farvie releases are all the evidence you’ll ever need; the 2023 Farvie Mourvèdre is intensely mineral, strong-armed and iron-wrought; the 2023 Farvie Grenache is profound and more; and the 2023 Farvie Syrah is a blood-stained walk through the wildest of Syrah terrain, its savouriness and its fruitiness exhibiting a charge that makes the wine feel jolted through with electricity. All three of the 2023 Swinney Farvie releases are landscaping-defining wines.

If you’re hunting the best of Australian wine then Swinney – in the Frankland River region of Western Australia – is simply a producer that you need to be familiar with. We’re talking genuine excitement here. The Swinney wines can be polarising and, to my taste, not every release is a hit. But when the Swinney wines are on, they are monumental.

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There have been 43 individual Swinney wines reviewed on The Winefront site since the 2018 releases, with an extra outlying wine from 2014 reviewed a few years earlier.