2024 Swinney Mourvèdre
Mike Bennie, www.winecompanion.com.au, September 2025
“This comes from dry-grown bush vines, was wild fermented, and spent eleven days on skins; matured in used, large-format oak barrels. Violet floral lift, scents of game meat, a good dose of cinnamon, garam masala, dried cranberry, dark cherry and cola. The palate is similarly set up – chewy and dusty with slender tannins, a core of dark fruit and woody spice, game meat finishes and is accompanied by herbs (fresh, dried and cool). It's a finely tuned expression, pure and fine boned, detailed with fruit, spice and savoury elements. Fantastic drinking.” 95 points
Wine Specs
Vintage
2024
Varietal
Mourvedre
Appellation
Frankland River
Harvest Date
11th & 12th April
Acid
5.41
pH
3.54
Bottling Date
February 2025
Residual Sugar
0.0 g/L
Alcohol %
13.5
Wine Profile
Vineyard Notes
Mourvèdre from dry-grown bush vines on the gravelly-loam soils of
our Swinney Wilson’s Pool vineyard.
Careful canopy management, fruit thinning and selective hand
harvesting over multiple passes, all ensured we achieved as close to
perfect fruit as possible.
Production Notes
The fruit was hand picked in a single day when flavour and tannin
maturity were optimum. It was then destemmed, berry sorted and
emptied to a single stainless steel fermenter via gravity.
We incorporated 18% whole bunches and wild fermentation to build
structure and texture as well as highlight the distinctive ferrous qualities,
fine structure and wild spice of Mourvèdre. The wine spent 11 days on
skins prior to being pressed directly to fine-grained, large-format, seasoned
French oak, and was aged on lees for 11 months prior to bottling.
The wine was made with minimum effective Sulphites, is unfined
and minimally filtered.
Other Notes
100% Mourvèdre