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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 1982
The 1982 Australian wine vintage is widely celebrated as one of the standout, defining harvests of the 1980s across the country's major southern wine regions. Coming off a relatively mild spring, a warm and remarkably dry summer provided ideal ripening conditions, yielding exceptionally healthy grapes with excellent natural concentration, deep color, and firm, ripe tannins.
While high-yielding in many areas, the vintage delivered outstandin...