Wolf Blass Grey Label Langhorne Creek Cabernet Shiraz 2021

Grey Label combines two of legendary winemaker Wolf Blass’ great loves: blending red grapes and Langhorne Creek fruit. It was first made in 1967 and remains distinctly Blass with its employment of French and American oak. And like the man, it’s not shy in the least. Boasts a big personality, one that celebrates Langhorne fruit in lifted aromas of bramble, mulberry, black cherry with spice aplenty, sweet fruited and generous. It offers a succession of emotions, at once fresh and clean but also mellow and rich. Integrated oak – no aggressive American oak here – allows the fruit to speak openly. It deliciously combines Cabernet earthiness, plum, dried herbs and violet florals with warming, upfront Shiraz black fruits and spice. Smooth and lingering, it’s a pleasure to drink now but will keep going and going.

Jeni Port

Wine critic at Winepilot

Jeni Port is one of Australia’s top wine communicators. Based in Melbourne, Jeni created the first wine column in the (then) Sun News-Pictorial before moving over to The Age and becoming that paper’s longest-serving wine writer. Over the years she has written for most Australian wine magazines and these days calls WinePilot home. She is also a Tasting Panel member on the Halliday Wine Companion. She was named Wine Communicator of the Year and Legend of the Melbourne Food and Wine Festival in 2014 and in 2018 Legend of the Vine. She is a founding board member of Australian Women In Wine and is the co-deputy chair of Australia’s Wine List of the Year Awards and China’s Wine List of the Year Awards.

Wine writer and critic