Hoffmann DV Ebenezer Shiraz 2021

Robert Parker

The 2021 Hoffmann DV Vyd. Ebenezer Shiraz hails from the northern Barossa (Hoffmann Dimchurch Vineyard, planted around 1950), and the wine is foot to the floor, screaming down the track. Holy heck! This is concentrated—wholly directed at one thing, focused. It is savory, balanced, exciting, meaty, sweet, long, complex and plush... you get the idea. This is a brilliant wine with great fruit. Boom. It will get better. 2,400 bottles filled. 14.5% alcohol, sealed under screw cap.

James Suckling

Archetypal Barossan. A ‘take no prisoners’ sort of wine that is inimitably of place and to be applauded. Full-weighted, loamy and dense. Molten black rock, kirsch, malt, mint, licorice strap, leather varnish, clove and beef drippings. This is what the southern French call 'surmaturite' and when it is done well, it adds a hedonistic richness to a wine, underlain by uncanny freshness. As is the case here. A big wine boasting a wealth of complexity: chiselled mineral bite, an almost sooty pixelated feel to the tannins and sumptuous density to the fruit. In all, paradoxically light on its feet, despite the salacious fruit and palpable oaky edges, taking their time to nestle.

Berlin Wine Trophy