Wolf Blass Black Label Cabernet Shiraz 2018
- 97
- $130
- Drink by: 2021 - 2041
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One of Australia’s most famous wines thanks to the promotional activities of one Wolfgang Blass, after he triumphed with the Jimmy Watson Trophy in the 70s. This is one of the smoothest and sleekest of any of these. That contribution from Langhorne Creek is an essential part of the wine. Blackberry and blackcurrant notes with a dark chocolate and coffee grinds character pervade. The palate is sublime with the concentrated fruit flavours supported with chalky tannins and some nicely weighted oak. It was a super year and this is a wonderful expression of the vintage.
Ray Jordan has been writing about wine for more than 40 years. His first articles were published in the early issues of national wine magazine Winestate in the late 1970s when he worked in Sydney as a newspaper correspondent. From 1989 Ray wrote more than 3000 columns as a regular newspaper wine columnist. He currently writes a regular column for the special business publication Business News and is one of the main contributors to national wine platform Wine Pilot. In 2017 Ray co-authored The Way it Was – A History of The Early Days of the Margaret River Wine Industry and previously wrote Wine in the Blood: Australia’s Family Wine Estates, published in Mandarin and English. In 2011 Ray was awarded WA Wine Press Club Jack Mann Memorial Medal for his contribution to the WA wine industry. His love of wine is as strong as his love of the blues and tasting the thousands of wines that cross his bench each year allows him to indulge in both.
