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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 1989
The 1989 vintage in Australia was a mixed, highly variable campaign across the country's primary wine regions, marked by unpredictable weather patterns that presented significant challenges in the vineyard—especially when contrasted with the exceptionally dry, warm harvest conditions enjoyed in 1988 and 1990.
A wet spring and erratic summer across southern Australia led to uneven flowering and fruit set in many districts. Rain late in the g...