Swinney Farvie Grenache 2023
$150, 14% alcohol, screwcap, Frankland River.
This is monumental. It’s all charisma, tannin, power and length. As you drink it you can feel the earth rise up. It tastes of meat, raspberry, dried herbs, iodine and sweet cherries, but it’s the swell of it, and the cascade, and the feeling of irrepressible momentum that propels its quality into the skies. Take that. This is great. 97 points.
Campbell Mattinson has been an independent journalist, wine critic and photographer for forty years. He founded The Winefront, is a former chief editor of the Halliday Wine Companion (and former editor of Halliday magazine), and is the only Australian to have won the Australian Wine Communicator of the Year Award more than once. He is 100% independent, and tastes between 5,000 and 10,000 wines each year, blind and in comparative brackets as often as is practicable.
Mattinson is also the founder of the Mattinson Photography business.
