diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index 818d9fe0..49a2229d 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ build-backend = 'setuptools.build_meta'
 
 [project]
 name = "terratorch"
-version = "0.99.0"
+version = "0.99.1"
 description = "TerraTorch - A model training toolkit for geospatial tasks"
 license = { "text" = "Apache License, Version 2.0" }
 readme = "README.md"
@@ -144,7 +144,7 @@ exclude_lines = [
 ]
 
 [tool.bumpver]
-current_version = "0.99.0"
+current_version = "0.99.1"
 version_pattern = "MAJOR.MINOR.PATCH[PYTAGNUM]"
 commit_message = "Bump version {old_version} -> {new_version}"
 commit = true
diff --git a/tests/test_backbones.py b/tests/test_backbones.py
index 6b8c36b9..760039cb 100644
--- a/tests/test_backbones.py
+++ b/tests/test_backbones.py
@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 import pytest
 import timm
 import torch
+import importlib
 
 import terratorch  # noqa: F401
 
@@ -49,7 +50,16 @@ def test_vit_models_accept_multitemporal(model_name, input_224_multitemporal):
     backbone = timm.create_model(model_name, pretrained=False, num_frames=NUM_FRAMES)
     backbone(input_224_multitemporal)
 
+# Swin IS NOT on HuggingFace
+@pytest.mark.parametrize("model_name", ["prithvi_swin_L", "prithvi_swin_B"])
+def test_swin_instantiation(model_name):
+     base_module = "terratorch.models.backbones.prithvi_swin"
+     module = importlib.import_module(base_module)
+     model_class = getattr(module, model_name) 
 
+     model = model_class(pretrained=False, pretrained_bands=[0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9],
+                         bands=[1,2,3,4,5,6])
+ 
 #def test_swin_models_accept_non_divisible_by_patch_size(input_386):
 #    backbone = timm.create_model("prithvi_swin_90_us", pretrained=False, num_frames=NUM_FRAMES)
 #    backbone(input_386)