Wolf Blass

Black Label Cabernet Shiraz 2018 (CLR) 750mL

Since 1973 the chase to make the perfect wine has been fundamental to creating 46 remarkable vintages of Black Label built on complex multilayered flavour and magnificent structure Black Lable is a powerful expression of the Wolf Blass philosophy of synergistic blendingThe philosophy behind Black Label is simple to take the years very best wines and weave them together into a synergistic whole the resultant wine being greater than the sum of its parts Its about creating a wine with many layers of flavour in a complex composition of intense fruit characters magnificent structure a rich lustrous texture long velvety tannins and a lingering palateHarvested at optimum maturity and flavour fruit from each vineyard was crushed destemmed and fermented separately for seven to twelve days on skins The ferments were allowed to warm naturally with plunging and gentle pumping over used to maximise colour and flavour extraction Midferment cooling extended fermentation exploiting time on skins and accentuating line and length Some batches stayed on skins to dryness while others completed fermentation in barrel allowing a balanced integration of oak characters and enhancing texture and complexity