Region: Barossa Valley
Sub Region: Ebenezer
Variety: Syrah
Country: Australia
Vintage: 2021
The Wine
This is Fraser McKinley’s “Hors Choix” selection from the Hoffmann family’s two oldest plots in Ebenezer: ER-27, planted in 1927, and DW-OLD, planted between 1888 and 1912. The wine spent 78 weeks in 22 Burgundian pièces before bottling, with no filtration, fining or sparging, and all transfers completed by gravity. Yields were modest at 26 to 39 hectolitres per hectare, and just 6,275 bottles were filled. It is the flagship single-vintage Sami-Odi wine and one of the defining modern old-vine Barossa releases.
Cellared Says
This is where Sami-Odi becomes properly serious. The old-vine material, the elevage and the sheer detail make it a wine to drink with full attention now, or forget about for a very long time. Yes its a cult wine in the making, and yes its is pretty darm good straight out of the gate. I like the ‘21 for all the vintage hardships. Cellar worthy.
Reviews
The spiciness and intensity to this is really something, yet it remains ethereal and poised with an agility and purity. Weightless it so many ways. Medium-bodied with a endless length and depth, but so linear and fine. Old-vine magic.
98-99 Points jamessuckling.com
Mike Bennie, The Wine Front, 97 points
Region: Barossa Valley
Sub Region: Ebenezer
Variety: Syrah
Country: Australia
Vintage: 2021
The Wine
This is Fraser McKinley’s “Hors Choix” selection from the Hoffmann family’s two oldest plots in Ebenezer: ER-27, planted in 1927, and DW-OLD, planted between 1888 and 1912. The wine spent 78 weeks in 22 Burgundian pièces before bottling, with no filtration, fining or sparging, and all transfers completed by gravity. Yields were modest at 26 to 39 hectolitres per hectare, and just 6,275 bottles were filled. It is the flagship single-vintage Sami-Odi wine and one of the defining modern old-vine Barossa releases.
Cellared Says
This is where Sami-Odi becomes properly serious. The old-vine material, the elevage and the sheer detail make it a wine to drink with full attention now, or forget about for a very long time. Yes its a cult wine in the making, and yes its is pretty darm good straight out of the gate. I like the ‘21 for all the vintage hardships. Cellar worthy.
Reviews
The spiciness and intensity to this is really something, yet it remains ethereal and poised with an agility and purity. Weightless it so many ways. Medium-bodied with a endless length and depth, but so linear and fine. Old-vine magic.
98-99 Points jamessuckling.com
Mike Bennie, The Wine Front, 97 points
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