2024 Viognier By Farr

Fruit is sourced from the original 1994 house block (friable red soil over limestone and sandstone) and a younger planting on red ironstone. Viognier is notoriously demanding in the vineyard, prone to horizontal growth, sunburn, and requiring ample water, so in recent years the fruit has been picked earlier to preserve natural acidity and finesse.

In the winery, grapes are foot-stomped and left on skins for several hours before pressing. Juice is transferred with all solids to barrel for natural fermentation, with gentle stirring in late autumn to initiate malolactic. The wine spends 11 months in barrel before racking, fining, filtration, and bottling.
Alc. 13.5%

Other Reviews....
By Farr Viognier is routinely an outstanding example of the viognier grape. It is again with this 2024 release.
This is a ripper. It’s characterful, it’s textural, it’s flavoursome and it’s beautifully persistent. Steel and mineral notes, cracked wheat, stonefruit, earth and roasted nuts. It’s one of those ‘one sip and you’re hooked’ wines. Exactly how it combines richness and finesse I’m not quite sure, but that it does. Drink 2025-2032.
95 points
Campbell Mattinson - The Wine Front

The ‘24 Viognier is an ultimate expression of oxidative winemaking, surrounded by bright acidity and savoury qualities. The wine has weight but think structure and refinement with a velvet touch. Year in year out, the Viognier by Farr blows the stereotypes of the variety to pieces, with it’s beautiful balance of peach, green ginger spice, chalk, flint and saline finish. Fast becoming another cult Farr wine.
Ben Knight