Sami-Odi ‘Little Wine’ #14

TASTING NOTE BY MSQ

【 Sami-Odi—澳洲新銳精品酒莊 】

Barossa可以說是澳洲的「Shiraz之鄉」，是澳洲大部分優質且著名的Shiraz紅酒的誕生之地。酒莊Sami-Odi亦位于此地。

這家小酒莊創立于2006年，創始人兼釀酒師Fraser McKinley在紐西蘭完成美術與設計的專業學習后，在一次短暫的Barossa之行中參與了釀酒季的工作，其后他的職業生涯便徹底轉向葡萄酒。Fraser McKinley在Barossa深耕多年，曾先后任職于Standish Wine和Torbreck Vintners，其后便創立屬于自己的酒莊Sami-Odi。

Sami-Odi以Hoffmann家族Dallwitz葡萄園內的多個地塊的Syrah提子為原料，最老的葡萄藤大概來自1912年。Fraser McKinley憑借其美術背景形成的獨特美學理念，將有機種植、整串發酵與最低干預工藝相結合，打破單一年份的局限，通過自由混釀打造出兼具深度、優雅、平衡與清新感的葡萄酒——重新詮釋了Barossa Syrah紅酒的風格。

這種風格的葡萄酒亦深得酒評人的喜愛與追捧。自推出以來，一直獲得The Wine Adovocate的95+高分好評。在澳洲葡萄酒最權威的分級指南、澳洲精品酒收藏風向標「朗頓分級」（Langton’s Classification）最新一版中，Sami-Odi成為少有的新入選酒莊，“Little Wine”同 “Hoffmann Dallwitz”都上榜“Classifed”級別。產量少，質量高，經常一瓶難求。

這款Little Wine是酒莊的代表作之一，超越了單一年份的限制，由不同年份的酒液混合而成——通常以近年主導年份為基礎，再審慎融入陳年酒窖中的酒液，以此賦予酒體層次感與複雜度。#14分別融合了以下年份酒液：2024 (37%), 2023 (32%), 2022 (12%), 2021 (8%), 2020 (4%), 2019 (3%), 2018 (1%), 2017 (2%), 2016 + 2015 (1%)。產量僅6132瓶。

TASTING NOTE BY WINE CRITICS

The wine, as ever, is elegant and tightly coiled. It has an inherent softness to it, partly from the process of aging and combining the component parts and partly from the older vintages just being softer and more weathered from time. It coalesces with great harmony and restraint, and I find it completely pleasurable. The wine is both floral and mineral, as all of the Sami-Odi wines have the propensity to be, and this sits so well within the confines of the wine. It’s a lovely thing. There are notes of graphite, licorice, cracked fennel seed, dark chocolate, blackberry and mulberry, too. 14.1% alcohol, sealed under natural cork.

RATING BY WINE CRITICS

97 by Erin Larkin, The Wine Adovocate, 2025