NV Sami-Odi ‘Little Wine’ #15 (Syrah)

"I adore the sense of detail in the Sami-Odi wines. It's like bonsai winemaking; Fraser's mastery of blending and eye for both the beauty of an assemblage and the aesthetic appeal of the packaged wine never fails to astound me. Sourced from five plots within the Hoffmann family's Dallwitz vineyard (the oldest vines planted prior to 1912) and an un-vintaged composition of casks. Bright magenta-splashed crimson with a flair of ripe satsuma plum, blueberry, boysenberry and blackberry fruits. Layers of exotic spice, olive tapenade, raspberry pip, pastis, cherry conserve, subtle wood spice and dried citrus blossom. Superb depth of fruit, silty-fine kinetic tannins and a seam of fine, minerally acidity; it's in the finest of form. Skateboarding geeks will get a kick out of the label, a rendition of Christian Hosoi's first pro-model deck from a sketch by his father, Pops Hosoi. Again ... detail."

97 Points - Dave Brookes, Halliday Wine Companion