2024 FARVIE NEW RELEASE LAUNCH
Join Owners, Janelle & Matthew Swinney and Winemaker, Rob Mann for either the Masterclass or Dinner.
Swinney have crafted WA’s best reviewed Shiraz, Grenache, Mourvèdre and Rose styles … and now possibly Australia’s greatest ever… say the local, national and international press.
Swinney Wines - 2025 & 2024 New Releases
13 Wines including…
Much anticipated release of the 2024 FARVIE Syrah, Grenache & Mourvèdre alongside their beloved Frankland River wines.
The 2024 Farvie Wines will be released on this day, the 9th of February 2026. NOT YET REVIEWED.
Taste all three 2024 FARVIE Releases
2024 Farvie Syrah | NEW RELEASE
2024 Farvie Grenache | NEW RELEASE
2024 Farvie Mourvèdre | NEW RELEASE
Plus all three 2023 FARVIE Releases
2023 Farvie Syrah | 20+/20 points (Perfect Score)
2023 Farvie Grenache | 19.5/20 points
2023 Farvie Mourvèdre | 19.5/20 points
- Matthew Jukes, The Fifty Finest Wines 2024
AND….
2022 Swinney 'Farvie' Syrah
2021 Swinney 'Farvie' Syrah
2022 Swinney 'Farvie' Mouvedre
Monday, February 9th
Hosted by Owner, Matt & Janelle Swinney and Winemaker, Rob Mann.
Masterclass: 5.30-7pm. 13 Wines with Kate Lamont nibbles, $160
Dinner: 7.30pm. 13 Wines & 5 Courses $255
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The Critics on Swinney
“Swinney’s Farvie wines are a tale of greatness.”
James Halliday, The Weekend Australian
“These are now the established benchmarks and should be on the
buy-now list for anyone with an interest in contemporary Australian wine."
Ray Jordan, The West Australian
"Swinney is in the process of making a very powerful statement about the Frankland River region via the delivery of these world class wines."
Erin Larkin, Robert Parker Wine Advocate, 2023
"In 2023 the Farvie trio has done something near-impossible. They have already taken three wines at the highest level and improved their lot. It is easy to loosen the wheel nuts on a car but almost impossible to tighten them further. This Swinney has done."
Matthew Jukes, 2024 Fifty Finest Wines
“Swinney is the complete package.”
Max Allen
The Farvie Context
George John Alexander Swinney, affectionately known as Farvie, and his family settled at ‘Franklands’ in 1922. Today, George’s great grand-children, siblings Matt and Janelle, continue his legacy through their vineyards and wine label.
The Farvie wines, first released in March 2020 from the 2018 vintage, represent the highest quality expression of our family’s best vineyard sites. Our ambition is the creation of wines that sit alongside the best in the world for their variety while evoking a beautiful and singular image of our family home in Frankland River.
The wines are the result of a vineyard–focused philosophy of meticulous attention to site selection and precise grape growing practices. These include dry growing, organic farming principles, intensive shoot and fruit thinning, and careful, deliberate bunch selection from fruit growing either on the morning side of the canopy or protected by shade cloth.
Production of each Farvie wine is limited to just a few hundred cases per year. Our 2023 Farvie Wines will be released on the 17th of February, 2025.
"In 2023 the Farvie trio has done something near-impossible. They have already taken three wines at the highest level and improved their lot. It is easy to loosen the wheel nuts on a car but almost impossible to tighten them further. This Swinney has done like Cerberus, I find it hard to choose one head from another, as all three are so spectacularly imposing. Like this mythical hound, they are all attached to the same elementally powerful body - the venerable soils in this unique corner of Frankland River."
Matthew Jukes, The Fifty Finest Wines 2024
The Wine List and Menu
Swinney 'Frankland River' Riesling 2025
It's pretty obvious that riesling in 2025 has emerged as a highlight variety. This one is an excellent example of the season. The aromas show a subtle lemon pith minerality with some quite distinctive spiciness, which you sometimes get in the Great Southern. The palate offers intense fruit with a lovely texture while still retaining that fine linear structure sustained by a gentle acidity. Excellent for current drinking, but with some cellaring if you wish.
94 Points - Ray Jordan
Swinney Frankland River Grenache 2024
A delightfully fragrant, light to medium-bodied grenache from bush vines on the Wilson's Pool Vineyard... The wine was barrel-sorted and gravity-fed into small wooden and stainless steel fermenters, with a higher percentage of whole bunch added during wild fermentation to build structure. Aromas of high-toned red fruit, rose petals and a slight earthiness flow through to a bright, seamlessly integrated palate that extends to a long finish.
94 Points - Ray Jordan
Swinney Frankland River Mouvedre 2024
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 - Mike Bennie, Halliday Wine Companion
Swinney Frankland River Syrah 2024
The colour is striking—deep red and almost opaque in parts. This wine comes from the Wilson's Pool and Powderbark Vineyards from vertically trellised syrah vines. The combination of Massale selection syrah and the more recently added clones 470 and 171 has introduced new characters and complexity to what was already an impressive wine. Whole bunches and wild fermentation bring texture and structure, complemented by spice that sits comfortably with the plush, darker fruit. The oak–fruit balance is superb, with fine-grained large-format French oak (just 8% new) and time on yeast lees completing the wine in a polished way.
95 Points - Ray Jordan
Swinney 'Farvie' Grenache 2024
The 2024 Farvie Wines will be released on the 9th of February 2026. NOT YET REVIEWED.
Swinney 'Farvie' Grenache 2023
A remarkable grenache that captures much of the winemaking and viticultural philosophy with this wine sourced from the bush vine Wilson’s Pool Vineyard. The fruit was hand-picked, berry sorted and gravity-fed to French oak fermenters where 30 % whole bunches and wild fermentation have accentuated the bright spicy characters. The oak continues to play a more subordinate role with a greater percentage of whole bunches being used these days. Coupled with the earlier picking approach it captures the coolness and crunchy freshness style that is becoming the hallmark of the style. The palate is unlike any other Australian grenache with its precise arrow-straight acidity fired with telling accuracy to a target that eventually reveals deeper succulent fruit flavours. It is still tightly wrapped with firmness and tension. A wine of a touch of brash youthfulness and serious intensity.
99 Points - Ray Jordan
Swinney 'Farvie' Mouvedre 2024
The 2024 Farvie Wines will be released on the 9th of February 2026. NOT YET REVIEWED.
Swinney 'Farvie' Mouvedre 2023
Oh yes, I love this wine. It has a beautiful perfume and brightness evident on the nose and the palate. This is bush vine mourvedre. The structure and palate poise are exceptional. The rustic edges are slightly knocked off. Meaty chorizo, but it’s subtle. Has a slightly ironstone rusty nail thread running through it with a tense dry tannin feel in the mouth. It was matured in a single 1600-litre vat that has no direct oak impact. The attention to detail is demonstrated by the management of the bush vine canopies, allowing attention to each bunch with the resulting uniformity of fruit. Traces of blue fruits with a subtle licorice and tarry character. Slightly more supple and revealing than the grenache and less open and opulent than the syrah.
99 Points - Ray Jordan
Swinney 'Farvie' Mouvedre 2022
Having fallen head over heels with this wine in the 2021 vintage, my stomach was in knots when I approached the 2022 in Perth. Would ‘second album syndrome’ strike? Not a chance. This wine’s fanfare is all-encompassing, with an epic nose that is striking, fruit-packed and sophisticated. There are abundant rose petals, plum and red cherry notes, and sensual waves of florality and bounteous juiciness are countered by intense, brittle minerality. The acid line scours the palate with masochistic striations that form the tramlines on which this wine delivers its message with tireless accuracy. And then you notice that something is missing. Unlike virtually every other mesmeric Mourvèdre on earth, oak is seemingly missing. Of course, this is an illusion because behind every cache of flavour molecules sits a silent oak nuance, hidden from view but doing the covert task of adding grandeur and detail without craving any credit. This is another jaw-dropping wine, and it stands a chance of running a longer race than the 2021, too, so be sure to secure your stock.
19.5+/20 - Matthew Jukes, matthewjukes.com
Swinney 'Farvie' Syrah 2024
The 2024 Farvie Wines will be released on the 9th of February 2026.NOT YET REVIEWED.
Swinney 'Farvie' Syrah 2023
This is a super-closed and incredibly combative wine, and all the action happens in pin-drop silence. This is a quiet assassin, and the tension throughout is remarkable. It is not easy to determine the grape variety on first taste, and nor should it be because the vineyard and its intense minerality speak louder than the flesh and skins of the grapes. The frictive layers of anti-fruit silently fall away to reveal a spectacular statuesque Syrah. Toned, lithe, brightly fruited and yet immovable, there is not a molecule out of place, and it stands riveted to the spot with a commanding gaze and unshakable temperament. In 2023, the Farvie trio has done something near-impossible. They have already taken three wines at the highest level and improved their lot. It is easy to loosen the wheel nuts on a car but almost impossible to tighten them further. This Swinney has done. They are ultra-high-definition versions of previous vintages, and I take my hat off to viti (Rhys Thomas) and vini (Rob Mann) for communicating in sublime, choreographed harmony. Like Cerberus, I find it hard to choose one head from another, as all three are so spectacularly imposing. Like this mythical hound, they are all attached to the same elementally powerful body – the venerable soils in this unique corner of Frankland River.
20/20 - Matthew Jukes, matthewjukes.com
Syrah. Wow, deep colour and a powerful aroma announce a wine of power, poise and presence. Deep black and dark red colour with touches of purple. There is a sweet and beautiful spicy freshness and energy that bursts from the glass. This wine is about feel, and there is a saline minerality and alkaline character, combining with an almost glazed shimmering sheen. It is a wine that is both detailed and expansive, with layered, revealing textures and flavours burning within. The fruit is from dry-grown vertically trellised vines on the Powerbark and Wilson’s Pool vineyards. And the detail comes from the handpicking berry sorting approach before gravity feeding the two demi muids with a 55% whole bunch component.
99 Points - Ray Jordan
Swinney 'Farvie' Syrah 2022
The colour alone stops you in your tracks because it is as near-black as possible, interwoven with ravishing midnight blue and sanguineous red tones. The nose seems to take its instruction from the colour, with a profoundly deep engine of malevolent, night-walker-style blackberry and black cherry tones, shot through with Swedish liquorice, fresh peaty soil and cracked black peppercorns. If Nosferatu, Voldemort, Moriarty and Sauron caught up on a day off, they would drink this wine. And given its freshness and purity, it wouldn’t leave them slow off the mark after their rendezvous because, for all of the awe-inspiring qualities in the glass, this is one of the most dynamic Syrahs on earth. Lividity and dynamism join forces to make this another remarkable declaration of the power and poise found in the great Frankland River terroir brought to the fore by inspirational winemaking.
19.5+/20 - Matthew Jukes, matthewjukes.com
Swinney 'Farvie' Syrah 2021
Has a high-end black pepper and perfume character with a little Chinese five spice character on the nose. A beautiful medium weight palate which is effortlessly long and precise. Elegant fine-boned tannin sync with the black fruits. No new oak has been used and the aim is clearly to capture the essence of Frankland which it does. Of the Farvies so far, it is probably the most immediately approachable with its harmony and softness. There is a brilliance and vibrancy about it.
98 Points - Ray Jordan