Swinney Farvie Mourvèdre 2023

Written By Campbell Mattinson
Mattinson review of 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.

Campbell Mattinson

This article was written by Campbell Mattinson, founder of The Winefront and mattinson, and former chief editor of Halliday.

When you pick up a wine book and see thousands of top-scoring wines, it’s hard to know which wine to choose. Mattinson guides you through this maze, giving you an honest view of the best Australian wines, the best wine stories, the best wine producers, the best value wines and simply, the best tasting wines. Importantly, Mattinson will tell you about the top-rated wines and also about the underrated wines. In short, Mattinson knows Australian wines inside and out.

Mattinson has been a photo-journalist since 1987. For the past 25 years he’s been a voice that you can trust when you’re looking for the best wines. He’s the only Australian to have won the Australian Wine Communicator of the Year Award more than once. He’s a past winner of a Louis Roederer International Wine Media Award, and is the author of the award-winning book The Wine Hunter. He’s not afraid to put a score beside a wine. But what he’d rather do, is tell you the wine’s story.

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