Wolf Blass Wines, established in 1966, has grown from a humble tin shed to become one of the world’s most successful and awarded wineries. Today, Wolf Blass wines are exported to more than 50 countries and are recognised internationally as icons of modern winemaking. The essence of Wolf Blass wines is exemplified through the passion of its custodians, past and present as they continue to create wines of quality, character and consistency.

The fruit here is sourced from the Medlands vineyard in Dorrien, in the central Barossa Valley proper. It's a wonderful release from a strong vintage. Harmonious, pure and showing great length of flavour and grace. Pristine aromas of satsuma plum, blackberry, black cherry and blueberry fruits are underlined by hints of fine spice, cedar, licorice, dark chocolate, violets, roasting meats and earth. The aromas transpose over onto the palate neatly, seemingly gaining detail and delineation. Silky and elegant is the fruit flow with layers of the finest of tannins, everything poised beautifully before the wine trails off pure and long with the smoothest of dark fruits and gentle oak spice. A cracking release for Wolf Blass. Drink to: 2053; Alcohol: 14.5%; Price: $200.00; Rating: 97 Points; James Halliday Wine Companion

Very dense, concentrated, glass-staining purple-red colour; the bouquet likewise luxuriously dense and concentrated, with luscious blackberry and spice flavours. A whopping wine with tremendous intensity, concentration and drive, and mercifully not top-heavy with coconutty oak. I suspect French oak has been used—very different from the Grey Label Shiraz. Toasted nuts, cocoa powder, chocolate/mocha and fruitcake. A massively proportioned and generously flavoured wine with amazingly fine, soft tannins. A ripping wine—all it needs is time. Drink: 2025 to 2041; Price: $200.00; Rating: 97 Points; Huon Hooke

This is from the (single) Medlands Vineyard at Dorrien in the Barossa Valley. Put this up against Grange and it would fundamentally give it a run for it money, pound for pound, style for style. This Platinum goes into 100% French oak of course, whereas Grange goes into American, but all the same there’s a mound of fruit, a mound of oak, a wealth of tannin and an emphatic statement being made. In any case this is a fabulous warm-climate wine, thick with fruit, well balanced, churned with tannin, smoky, blackberried, infused with saltbush and layered with various woodsy spices. This wine is all about richness and structure but it has no shortage of length. It will live for decades. Drink: 2026-2035; Price: $200.00; Rated: 96+ Points; The Wine Front