Fraser McKinley's epic Dallwitz Syrah is again in stellar form with the 2022 release. Like everything Fraser does, the attention to detail is amazing, from vineyard to packaging. It hails from the Hoffmann vineyard in Ebenezer. A cask selection from DW-OLD (planted between 1888–1912), ER-27 (planted 1927) and DW-95VSP (planted 1995) with a 76 week elevage in Burgundian pièces. Perfectly ripened macerated satsuma plum, black cherry and cassis with blueberry lift; layered with exotic spice, graphite, allspice, pan juices, panforte, dark chocolate, plum conserve, violets, fennel and rich earth. Heady concentration and perfectly poised, with powdery tannins sporting a real sense of compression and singing clearly of their northern Barossa roots. It's a stunning wine. Much adored and sought after, and it sure is easy to see why. -Dave Brookes for Halliday Wine Companion

The 2022 Hoffmann Dallwitz Shiraz is a product of the 2022 season. In terms of conditions, it wasn't too different from 2021 that preceded it, in that it was mild and long and largely problem free. It was slightly colder at night in 2022 (which, I assume, is the reason why the wines appear to be imbued with natural-feeling acidity while also having perceivably plump/fluffy fruit). These two years gifted producers the opportunity to express their vineyards and their style in equal measure. In McKinley's experience, the season was slightly higher yielding than he was expecting: "In January, when we could have crop thinned, it didn't look like we needed to drop any fruit. When we picked, it was obvious we could have dropped some fruit, but by then we were picking." As McKinley was sort of waiting for favorable flavors to develop, the wine ended up being higher in alcohol than it usually is, at 15.2%. The only other vintage that reached heights like that was the warm 2008 vintage. So, this is an interesting outcome that talks about the variability of seasons, year to year. So, to the wine. Aromatically, you get black fruit and asphalt, gravel and star anise, summer raspberry and dried herbs. On the palate, the wine is concentrated and intense; it blankets the tongue in flavor and spools out over a long, gravelly finish. It has both levity and coolness, grit and grunt, all things in equal measure. While the wine may be higher in alcohol, it doesn't feel it, and the characters that the "later" picking imbued in the fruit are evident to see in the final wine. After all things, it is balanced and fine. Sealed under cork and wax.. -98pts, Erin Larkin for Wine Advocate