2021 Swinney Farvie Syrah

96 Points - Campbell Mattinson, The Wine Front

“We've already reviewed the 2022 but this 2021 appeared on my desk, and we don't seem to have reviewed it, so here we go. This is a mightily impressive wine. It's a bit wow. It's grunty, nutty, wild with flavour and seductive soft. It's all things and more. Gravel, twigs, black cherries and plums, peanut shells, graphite, raspberry and bacony oak. There's a lot of spice here, a lot of peppercorn and clove, a lot of scent all round, a sleek kind of seriousness. There are riffs of seaweed, iodine and rust too. This is a star. It's firm but the flavours and perfumes fly. (Drink between 2025-2035)”

95 Points - James Halliday, Halliday Wine Companion

“Farvie represents the upper echelon of fruit and winemaking at Swinney. Succulent, medium-bodied red of suede texture, bright, red berry fruit characters, a thread of crushed granite minerality and soaking of liquid brown spice. Super-fragrant with all that clove, cinnamon and garam masala perfume lavishly dusted on raspberry and cranberry fruitiness. The palate flows beautifully and long, more of the red berries and of course the follow-through of brown spice. Tannins thread tension and grip through the wine, the finish all that minerality and a growing pucker. Refined and definitively 'syrah' over shiraz. A beautiful and individual expression. Closure: Screw cap. 14% alcohol. (Drink by 2035)”