SAMI ODI PRE-RELEASE - ORDERS TO BE DELIVERED LATE FEBRUARY TO EARLY MARCH
Grape: 100% Syrah
Region: Barossa Valley, SA
Ageing Potential: 2025 - 2043
Size: 750mL
Notes from the winemaker:
Our ‘Hors Choix’ or ‘Super Choice’ derived from the Hoffmann’s two oldest plots, sown in 1927 (ER-27) and between 1888-1912 (DW-OLD).
These 22 Burgundian Pièces were carefully assembled and bottled amid the spring of 2022 after enduring a 78 week elevage. Bottles were filled without filtration, fining or sparging (the removal of naturally occurring oxygen & C02) and all transfer’s were completed via gravity prior to bottling.
This can be enjoyed now or cellared for as long as your taste desires. It adores air and will continue to unfurl over many days if kept in cool conditions.
Yields ranged between 26 & 39 hectolitres per hectare.
6275 bottles were filled.
About Sami-Odi
Our 'simple yet attentive' farming philosophy remains unchanged, with paramount importance placed on prudence, organics and our alignment with lunar rhythms. All cuts are made amid descending moons and with the greatest of care, yearning to produce fine canes, balanced clusters and small berries with resilient skins. Shoot thinning, suckering and crop paring are all integral parts of our annual cycle with an ideal to farm as simply as possible, resulting in the harvest of healthy fruit early in the season that requires no adjustments and little intervention.
Our cellar practices continue this premise; hand sorted clusters endure their primary fermentation at whatever pace the season dictates, without the use of destemming, pumps, yeasts, enzymes or temperature control. The whole clusters are gently pigeaged by foot prior to basket pressing into Burgundian Pièces where they complete both their primary and malolactic fermentations. To encourage the retention of naturally occurring carbon dioxide (a by-product of fermentation and a natural preservative and antioxidant) the wines are not racked or clarified during their elevage and remain on their lees until they are assembled.
