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Swinney
"Validation is faith’s greatest reward, and right now Matt Swinney is up to his eyeballs in it.”
Nick Ryan, The Australian
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Grapes have been grown on the Swinney property for 100 years and were sold to other producers in need of high-quality Frankland River fruit for much of this time. More recently, siblings Matt and Janelle Swinney have brought Rob Mann (grandson of Western Australian wine legend, Jack Mann) as winemaker and Lee Haselgrove together to produce wine that genuinely reflects the land on which they grew up. The wines show great bright, pure fruit character, savoury complexity and delightfully elegant structure. The wines are an absolute steal, overdelivering in every way at these prices.
All wines below are available now at our special offer prices for the next 7 days only. To place your order simply click on the links below or return the attached form, by email, by fax on 03 9419 6970 or callus on 03 9419 6990.
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2020 Riesling
Usually $32 - Special Offer $29
Lovely wine here. It has a blossom perfume over lime, green pear and green apple, texture is all soft chalkiness, acidity also firm but gentle in a way, maybe some fennel in there as well, and plenty of crunch and pear skin grip on a long finish. Unusually for Frankland River Riesling, really easy to enjoy as a young wine. Really like this. Almost feels Italianate and Soave-like, which is likely a weird thing to say, but there you have it.
94 Points
Gary Walsh, The Wine Front
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2019 Grenache
Usually $43 - Special Offer $39
Them tannins. Whoa. Italianate and fine, a swish and web that sucks and pulls, draws long and gives this beautiful shape to the mellifluous, come-hither dark fruit and wild herb n spice that features so heavily in this wine. Amazing perfume, a little quieter than 2018 but with all the appeal and flighty, floral and spice fragrance of best grenache from anywhere. Pent up, tight, precise and pure, the palate is a masterpiece example of the variety. That tension, that length! All here. Such a good wine.
96 Points
Gary Walsh, The Wine Front
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2019 Mourvedre Syrah Grenache
Usually $43 - Special Offer $39
Deep, brooding spicy wine of black fruit and savoury dried herb and lavender perfume. It’s defined as much by anything else, by its dense shale-like or graphite tannin. So much good stuff to chew on, and roll around the mouth. Also, black olive and grilled meat strewn with pepper, some raspberry maybe, and freshness to acidity. Length is excellent too, saline and savoury, with uncompromising tannin and grip as it goes. It’s a fair way out of the mainstream in terms of Australian wine, and none the worse for that.
94 Points
Gary Walsh, The Wine Front
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2019 Syrah
Usually $43 - Special Offer $39
All the cracked pepper and blackberry, the hint of wetsuit neoprene reduction, ground spices, char-grilled sausages on the BBQ. Medium-bodied, blueberry and blackberry, husky wheatgerm flavour and tannin, sweetness chopped back with thyme and black olive, clean acidity, boysenberry pie and a dry nutty finish of excellent length. Excellent. Savoury. Regional. Quite the looker.
94 Points
Gary Walsh, The Wine Front
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These wines are available now at our special offer prices for the next 7 days only. To place your order simply click on the links above or return the attached form, by email, by fax on 03 9419 6970 or call us on 03 9419 6990.
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