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  • Country ranking ?

    333
  • Producer ranking ?

    27
  • Decanting time

    45min
  • When to drink

    Now
  • Food Pairing

    Lamb

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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....

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Vintage 1984

The Australia 1984 wine vintage received mixed reviews from the wine press and critics. It was a year marked by variable weather conditions and challenges, leading to wines of varying quality across different regions and grape varieties. H

  1. Variable Quality: The prevailing theme in reviews of the Australia 1984 vintage was the highly variable quality of the wines. Different regions experienced different weather patterns and challenges,...

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75% cab from Langhorne Creek and 15% merlot from Langhorne Creek and McLaren Vale and 10% shiraz from Eden Valley. Floral notes, much more delicate than the '83, is one way to look at this but lacking concentration would be a more accurate way to describe it. This is a glass half empty wine. Coffee grinds. Fair at best. Grippy, hollow and the fruit fell away before the finish.
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Origin

Barossa Valley, South Eastern

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