Cellar Reserve Shiraz
⏳ Drinking Window
Typically best enjoyed 3–10 years from vintage release.
🍽️ Food & Wine Pairings
Grilled ribeye steak, roasted lamb shanks, or rich beef stew.
✨ Technical Specifications
The Cellar Reserve Shiraz from Wolf Blass represents a more exclusive, small-batch exploration of South Australia's signature grape. Sourced from premium vineyards across renowned regions like the Barossa Valley, McLaren Vale, and Langhorne Creek, this wine showcases the winemakers' freedom to craft a contemporary style while honoring the estate's legendary blending heritage. Fermented in open fermenters and matured in a combination of French and American oak, it delivers the classic plushness, dark fruit intensity, and subtle spice that South Australian Shiraz is famous for, wrapped in a velvety, approachable structure.
🍾 About the Producer
Wolf Blass was established in 1966 by German-born oenologist Wolfgang Blass, who began vinifying small parcels of fruit in South Australia before purchasing the Bilyara property outside Nuriootpa in the Barossa Valley. Blass pioneered a transformative paradigm in Australian wine, prioritizing accessibility, multi-regional blending, and meticulous oak management over austere single-vineyard orthodoxy. Sourcing across disparate South Australian terroirs—spanning the warm red loam and ironstone of the Barossa Valley to the maritime plains of Langhorne Creek and the high-elevation, cooler, slate-strewn hillsides of Eden Valley and Clare Valley—the winery crafts highly polished, structured wines with supple fruit concentration. Viticulture adheres to modern sustainable guidelines accredited through Sustainable Winegrowing Australia under corporate parent Treasury Wine Estates. Wolf Blass made history by securing the prestigious Jimmy Watson Memorial Trophy four times, anchored by its benchmark Black Label Cabernet-Shiraz, supplemented by the iconic Yellow Label, regional Gold Label, and single-vineyard Sapphire Label releases.
🍇 Grapes
Shiraz
🍷 ABV
14.0-14.5%