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Wine Description
The Story
Black Label, our iconic flagship, and the first ultra-premium wine made by Wolf Blass in 1973. Wolf’s aim was to create the finest red blend from the vintage and, 37 vintages later, the sentiment is as true today as it was then. Black Label enjoys a prestigious history, a multi-award winning wine which is, to this day, the only Australian wine to have won the coveted Royal Melbourne Wine Show’s Jimmy Watson Memorial Trophy a record four times....
Vintage 1980
The 1980 wine vintage in Australia was a good, functional, and highly respectable year that yielded classically styled, medium-bodied red wines, serving as a steady placeholder between the decade's larger blockbusters. A warm and dry growing season across South Australia accelerated grape ripening, allowing premium vineyards in the Barossa Valley and Coonawarra to harvest perfectly healthy crops with solid sugar concentration and soft, approac...