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Description
This is Rob Mann's selection for the best of the best Shiraz grown on Swinney vineyard in Frankland River.
It's the finest expression of the variety he can muster. In just a couple of vintages has quickly become considered a new high watermark for WA Shiraz.
The Great Southern has always championed Shiraz/Syrah but here, the Swinney family and Mann take into rarified territory. A painful bunch and berry selection from 20+-year-old vines, a high percentage of whole bunch amplifying the spice and lift aromatics and well as structure, this is a sublime Australian expression of Shiraz that will mature gracefully for many, many years to come.
99 points
“A remarkable wine that challenges our greatest shiraz albeit with a stylistic difference.”
- Ray Jordan (businessnews.com.au)
97+ points
"Streamlined and tightly coiled with blue fruit, dried herbs, and sandalwood. Fine, seamless tannins contribute to the wine's effortless structure. Bravo."
- Erin Larkin (The Wine Advocate)
97 points
“A little reductive at first, plum skin and salted licorice, pipe tobacco and beef broth... Incredible focus and precision.”
- Nick Ryan (The Weekend Australian)
96 points
“A magnificent syrah... There’s a distinction and elegance at play. Perfumed, supple, incredibly layered syrah with regional typicity at the forefront. Take a bow.”
- Mike Bennie (The Wine Companion)
96 points
"It’s compact, tight and coiled up like a spring. Exemplary Shiraz."
- Gary Walsh (The Wine Front)
20+/20 points
“This is a quiet assassin, and the tension throughout is remarkable... The frictive layers of anti-fruit silently fall away to reveal a spectacular statuesque Syrah... There is not a molecule out of place, and it stands riveted to the spot with a commanding gaze and unshakable temperament.”
- Matthew Jukes (matthewjukes.com)
