Sami-Odi is a small winery in the Barossa Valley producing the smallest about of Syrah at the highest quality by winemaker Fraser McKinley. Grapes come from separate selected pots across the Barossa using organic principles and sometimes blending across barrels, sites, and vintages.

This is sublime. Supple, soft, deep in flavour, that feeling of infinite detail in spice, savoury characters, ripe fruit, leafy notes, sage herbal characters, sundry ‘mineral’ feel, and then there’s tannin and acid to hem it all in, firmly, even with a sense of silkiness. It has the perfume of something pretty and yet the athlete’s rippling body. A wine that drags long, fresh, yet drawn into a deep hole of darker, inkier things. It’s one to savour. It’s one to cellar. It’s a benchmark. Date: Jan 2018; Alcohol: 14%; Closure: Cork; Drink: 2018-2030; Rated: 96+ Points; Mike Bennie; The Wine Front