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96+
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Tasting Notes
A heroic, dense and muscular rendition of the Hoffmann’s sun drenched Eben-Ezer earths. Laced together from the two oldest sections within the Hoffmann families vineyard, planted on their own roots in 1927 (0.31 Hectare) & the oldest vines between 1888 & 1912 (0.775 Hectare) with a thimble from the neighbouring Eric’s Corner planted in 1996 (0.39 Hectare). These 19 Burgundian Pièces were carefully assembled and bottled amidst the spring of 2020 after enduring their 81 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. Yields ranged between 21 & 27 hectolitres per hectare. 5216 bottles were filled. Label: Andy’s Porpoise, printed 2017. Rear – Andy’s bird, sewn 2019.
Tasting Profile
- Light
- Full
- Low Tannin
- Tannic
- Sweet
- Dry
- Low Acidity
- High Acidity
- Smooth
- Complex
Classification: Red
Variety: Shiraz
Vintage: 2018
Bottle Size: 750ml (Bottle)
Country: Australia
Region: South Australia, Barossa Valley
Alcohol %: 13.5%
Cellaring: 15 Plus Years
Scores
96+ / 100"Rich scents of sweet berries, violets, faint vanilla, clove-cedar wood, but gentle, some flighty green herb and undergrowth aromas in the mix. Lots going on. It’s perfumed, to summarise. Silky, satiny-textured, such a beautiful feel with the inky concentration a sub-plot in the wine story. Yep, it’s dense, but the catering for that intensity of oil pool-dark plummy fruit is licks of spice, herb and cooling acidity – lift and finesse in the power. Heft, grace, shapely gummy-puckering tannin, deliciousness and moreish impulse wrapped in. Multi-dimensional. Epic wine. Epic."
- Mike Bennie
