2020 Swinney Syrah
NEW RELEASE - 1st SEPTEMBER
Mike Bennie, www.winefront.com.au, Aug 21
From the fantastically farmed Swinney vineyard, syrah goes to older (mostly) larger format oak. Swinney for the winney.
Quite inky and dense, inward concentration in spades, blackcurrants, boot polish, charry woody spice, silty tannins and saline minerally detail going on. Firm texture in a way but lots of bouncy, bright fruit in that mix – tannins ripple glossy yet taut in the wine. Fresh but deep, dark, brooding too. Black olive, green herbs, the idea of how red earth tastes in this wine too. Serious red, seriously good. 94 pts
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Wine Specs
Vintage
2020
Varietal
Syrah
Appellation
Frankland River
Harvest Date
26th February & 11th March 2020
Acid
4.80
pH
3.73
Bottling Date
February 2021
Residual Sugar
1.0 g/L
Alcohol %
14.0
Wine Profile
Tasting Notes
Deep and penetrating purple.
Intense aromatic spice with blueberries, coal dust and a hint of wildness.
Medium to full bodied, bright and expressive with satsuma plums, schezuan pepper and couverture. Inky and opulent with fine bony tannins supporting the fruit to a long finish.
Vineyard Notes
Dry-grown, vertically trellised Syrah with small parcels of fruit hand-picked from specific sites on our Swinney Wilson’s Pool and Powderbark vineyards, including parcels from mature Massale Selection Syrah, 470 and Waldron clonal material.
Shadecloth on the afternoon side of the vines builds structural complexity in the fruit.
Production Notes
Handpicked, berry sorted and emptied to small wooden and stainless steel fermenters via gravity.
We incorporated 31% whole bunches and wild fermentation to build structure and texture and provide the framework on which to express the opulence and spice of Syrah.
The wine spent two weeks on skins prior to pressing directly to fine grained, large format French oak
(13% new) and was aged for 11 months prior to bottling.
Other Notes
100% Syrah