Swinney Mourvèdre Rosé 2024

Swinney Mourvèdre Rosé is a dry rosé dominated by Mourvèdre, raised on lees in seasoned barriques.

Mourvèdre dominates the 2024 blend at 90 per cent, with Vermentino for a racy acid line and Cinsault adding a dash of cherry-fruited flesh. Despite atypically warm conditions, Rob Mann says the season gave fruit of real depth and intensity with balanced, high natural acidity, so he pushed the lees ageing out to a full five months in seasoned barriques to build texture. Most of the fruit is dry-grown bush vine off Powderbark Vineyard's ironstone gravel hilltop, picked just short of full maturity. The Mourvèdre was pressed as bunches on an ultra-light Champagne cycle, and the juice fermented with indigenous yeast.

A touch more colour this year, and more muscle: citrus, berries, wet slate, Provençal herbs, then powerful flavour over a base of iron, earth and salt. Serve at 9 to 10 degrees. Pair it with roast chicken, grilled tuna or a rich seafood stew.

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