NEW Swinney Releases
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.
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
Swinney Wines - 2025 & 2024 New Releases
Much anticipated release of the 2024 Syrah, Grenache & Mourvèdre alongside the 2025 Frankland River Riesling and Bush Vine Mourvèdre Rosé
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
Hosted by Owner, Matt Swinney and Winemaker, Rob Mann
Masterclass: 5.30-7pm. 11 Wines with Kate Lamont nibbles, $65
Dinner: 7.30pm. 11 Wines & 5 Courses $175
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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
First Course
2025 Swinney Frankland River Riesling (New Release)
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
2024 Swinney Frankland River Riesling
Riesling with X-factor. This nails the brief. Scintillating with its core of briny, mineral-laced acidity with a vivid sense of freshness, power and concentration. Lots of mixed citrus fruit, some just-ripe pineapple, crunchy green apple, a pleasing haziness to texture lending complexity, a touch of cashew nut savouriness, a little grip and pucker in its swagger. Incredibly refreshing and delicious overall. A fine wine.
95 Points - Mike Bennie, Halliday Wine Companion
Torbay asparagus, hollandaise, mandarin
Second Course
2025 Swinney Bush Vine Mourvèdre Rosé (Pre-Release)
Produced from estate-grown, bush vine mourvèdre. A fine, sleek rosé with tension and elegant tannin profile, innate freshness, a tart report of pleasing, sour cherry, cranberry tang and some fine rosehip tea characters. Succulent and refreshing, lighter weight but with good tension and structure. A serious pink wine on hand.
94 Points - Mike Bennie, Halliday Wine Companion on the 2024 vintage
Roasted mushrooms, stracciatella, almond XO
Third Course
2024 Swinney Frankland River Syrah
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
2024 Swinney Frankland River Grenache
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
2024 Swinney Frankland River Mourvèdre
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
Pork belly, curry dust, green goddess
Fourth Course
2023 Swinney Frankland River Grenache
Nick Ryan Best Wines of 2024
The Swinney vineyard in Frankland River has rewritten the map for Australian grenache, pulling focus from the traditional South Australian heartland and shining a light on WA's remote south-west. Tight and coiled at first, it unfurls gloriously in the glass to reveal dark raspberry and cranberry aromatics, a fleshy, gently gamey core of fruit and a complex weave of fine, gravelly tannins.
95 Points Nick Ryan, The West Australian
2023 Swinney Frankland River Mourvèdre
Yet another remarkable Rhone variety expressed perfectly from Frankland River. The aim appears to have been to present this as true a reflection of the vineyard as possible. It’s from bush vines and then a combination of whole bunches to build structure, wild fermentation to build texture and then finishing off for 11 months on lees in older French oak. It all contributes to a beautifully expressive wine capturing the distinctive ferrous regionality and the soft supple fruit of the variety with a little dried herb and sage bush lift.
95 Points Ray Jordan, rayjordanwine.com.au
Twice cooked lamb shoulder, melted beetroot, skordalia
Fifth Course
2023 Swinney 'Farvie' Syrah
Matthew Jukes, The Fifty Finest Wines of 2024
Finally, the featured wine in this extraordinary trio. 2023 Swinney Farvie Syrah employs 55% whole bunches, 13.7% alcohol, and the fruit is derived 70% Powderbark B2 and 30% Wilson’s Pool. 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.
20+/20 Points - Matthew Jukes, matthewjukes.com
2023 Swinney 'Farvie' Grenache
Matthew Jukes, The Fifty Finest Wines of 2024
2023 Swinney Farvie Grenache (30% whole bunch, 13.8 %alcohol, 100% Wilson’s Pool fruit) has a stunning nose, and it is brutally firm on the palate. It slams your taste buds shut only to open them again to see if they are still alive, and then it invades again without hesitation with extremely forceful and powerful purple fruit notes. It tastes darker than it looks. The colour is a vivid carmine, and this sanguineous colour leads one to anticipate a lighter style, but the acid profile and bitterness deliver a cut lip and bruised nose. The ironstone gravel soils make this an arresting and unforgiving wine. The sudden impact and collateral sensorial damage make it riveting. It shocks and then amazes and almost immediately soothes. It is the angriest and most demonic Grenache with the kindest heart. Half an hour later, the nose is singing, and the brittle edges calm a touch, making it evocative and grown-up, making the more open and ice creamy Grenaches seem uncomplicated and two-dimensional. The tension on the finish is what sets this wine and its siblings apart. It is unique from these varieties’ perspective. This is one of the most impressive Farvie Grenaches to date, and it continues a run of wines that defies comprehension.
19.5/20 Points Matthew Jukes, matthewjukes.com
2023 Swinney 'Farvie' Mourvèdre
Matthew Jukes, The Fifty Finest Wines of 2024
This time, the recipe involves 66% whole bunches, and the alcohol level is 13.8%. The fruit comes from the same source as the Grenache. Farvie Mourvèdre is more expansive, and it is immediately convivial. This variety’s softer impact and more open-armed expression lull you into a false sense of security before the trademark Farvie minerality attacks without warning or mercy. The moisture is sucked from the palate and is replaced with stoniness and skin characters that tease and striate. These palate manoeuvres cause rivulets of juiciness to collect, which refresh the senses with clean, free-running, open and gentle red and purple fruit flavours. It is stunning. There are discreet moments of fleshiness and controlled eroticism that work wonders from a pheromonal level. Fig notes and fresh-peeled bark abound, and it glistens with carnality. The fact that the well of profound fruit notes senesces to a single point of awesome and arresting dryness is entirely compelling.
19.5/20 Points - Matthew Jukes, matthewjukes.com (January 2025)