1996 Wolf Blass Black Label Cabernet Shiraz 750ml

1996 Wolf Blass Black Label Cabernet Shiraz 750mlSince 1973, the chase to make the perfect wine has been fundamental to creating 44 remarkable vintages of Black Label. Built on complex, multilayered flavour and magnificent structure, Black Label is a powerful expression of the Wolf Blass philosophy of synergistic blending. The 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

leading to an elegantly long finish

a great wealth of elegant dark fruit

Dylan McMahon was on track to become an electronic engineer until he decided to follow his destiny and make wine

Notes of tobacco leaf

with a touch of almond and white pepper

and the alcohol strength oozes out of the glass

The vines here spread across terraces of unforgiving

some very nice graphite notes and a little hint of that violetty

and a subtle smokiness

so intense as to be almost overwhelming

almost gamey aromas assimilated with brown apple and old strawberries

remains very well