Swinney Farvie Syrah 2022

Wine Profile
Tasting Notes
Impenetrable purple in colour. On the nose, there is cinnamon, couverture, Satsuma plum, black pepper, charcoal and Turkish delight. The palate is tightly focused and intense with graphite, blueberry, iodine, ferrous & exotic spice. Great depth, intensity and optimism. Needs no explanation.

Vineyard Notes
This fruit is dry-grown, vertically-trellised Syrah from our Powderbark B2 and Wilson Pool 801 garden project vineyard sites. Only a sub-section of soil in both blocks is farmed for Farvie in a way that both nourishes and balances the fruit to optimum levels to allow dry farming. The use of shadecloth on the side of the vines that receives the afternoon sun, and rigorous shoot positioning and bunch selection, further refines the unique expression so critical to the personality of this fruit.

Production Notes
The fruit was hand-picked, berry-sorted and gravity-fed to a French oak vat and two demi-muids. We incorporated 65% whole bunches followed by wild fermentation to build structure and texture while promoting the bright and spicy aromatics. The wine spent 12 days on skins and was then pressed directly to fine grained, large format, seaoned French oak, and aged for 14 months prior to bottling. The wine was made with minimum effective Sulphites, is unfined and minimally filtered.