Swinney Farvie Mourvèdre 2023

Swinney Farvie Mourvèdre 2023
$150, 13.9% alcohol, screwcap, Frankland River.

In a storm of windswept flavours the simplest burst of bright berried flavour can be the rope that saves your life. Or so it seems with a wine like this, which has woodsy and ferrous and flays of fire and herbs swirling throughout, when a bell chime of raspberry or red cherry or plum rises up into the centre of the wine and stills the spurs of the charging cattlemen, so to speak, as if the force is suddenly with you, as if all in the world is right in that moment when the wine is held in the cavern of your mouth; but only then. Enough. This wine is great. Its flavours are not for tasting. They’re for riding. 97 points.