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

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.

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