Region: Barossa Valley
Sub Region: Ebenezer
Variety: Syrah
Country: Australia
Vintage: 2020
The Wine
The 2020 Hoffmann Dallwitz came from a meagre season marked by wind and fire. It was assembled principally from the Hoffmann family’s two oldest plots, planted in 1927 and between 1888 and 1912, with small additions from neighbouring plantings dating from 1994 to 1996. The wine spent 82 weeks in 18 Burgundian pièces before bottling, with the usual Sami-Odi no-filtration, no-fining, no-sparging approach and gravity handling throughout. Yields were tiny at 9 to 17 hectolitres per hectare, and total production was 4,971 bottles.
Cellared Says
There is a bit more shadow and muscle to this release, which only adds to the appeal. It feels like a wine for serious Syrah drinkers and very patient cellars.
Reviews
Erin Larkin, Wine Advocate, 97 points — Larkin’s published note highlights the old-vine source, gravitas, density and tannin architecture, describing it as elegant, fine and exciting despite its scale.
Concentration, power, grace. That comes to mind immediately. Feels like it slides but the tannin profile builds in a quiet and assertive way, seamlessly in its weave of dried floral things and char finishes things off. Perfume is all pot pourri, dried cranberry, black olive, old spice cupboard and smoky paprika. Flavours similar, tannin chewy, grippy, well done. Grunty in a way, complex as all get out. An assertive expression, bolder than some years in its intensity and drive, but not without the hallmarks of great Sami Odi wines.
94 Points - Mike Bennie, The Wine Front
Region: Barossa Valley
Sub Region: Ebenezer
Variety: Syrah
Country: Australia
Vintage: 2020
The Wine
The 2020 Hoffmann Dallwitz came from a meagre season marked by wind and fire. It was assembled principally from the Hoffmann family’s two oldest plots, planted in 1927 and between 1888 and 1912, with small additions from neighbouring plantings dating from 1994 to 1996. The wine spent 82 weeks in 18 Burgundian pièces before bottling, with the usual Sami-Odi no-filtration, no-fining, no-sparging approach and gravity handling throughout. Yields were tiny at 9 to 17 hectolitres per hectare, and total production was 4,971 bottles.
Cellared Says
There is a bit more shadow and muscle to this release, which only adds to the appeal. It feels like a wine for serious Syrah drinkers and very patient cellars.
Reviews
Erin Larkin, Wine Advocate, 97 points — Larkin’s published note highlights the old-vine source, gravitas, density and tannin architecture, describing it as elegant, fine and exciting despite its scale.
Concentration, power, grace. That comes to mind immediately. Feels like it slides but the tannin profile builds in a quiet and assertive way, seamlessly in its weave of dried floral things and char finishes things off. Perfume is all pot pourri, dried cranberry, black olive, old spice cupboard and smoky paprika. Flavours similar, tannin chewy, grippy, well done. Grunty in a way, complex as all get out. An assertive expression, bolder than some years in its intensity and drive, but not without the hallmarks of great Sami Odi wines.
94 Points - Mike Bennie, The Wine Front
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