Platinum Label Cabernet Sauvignon
⏳ Drinking Window
Typically best enjoyed 10–25 years from vintage release, with the structure to cellar beautifully for decades.
🍽️ Food & Wine Pairings
Grilled prime ribeye steak, slow-roasted rack of lamb with rosemary, mature cheddar cheese
✨ Technical Specifications
The Platinum Label represents the absolute pinnacle of winemaking at Wolf Blass, a house built on the vision of German immigrant Wolfgang Blass who revolutionized Australian wine in the 1960s. While the Platinum tier is most famously associated with their monumental Shiraz, any Cabernet Sauvignon elevated to this flagship status represents an extraordinary selection of the finest, most characterful parcels of fruit from South Australia's premier terroirs, such as the terra rossa soils of Coonawarra or the historic soils of the Barossa. Crafted only in exceptional vintages, this wine undergoes meticulous small-batch fermentation followed by extensive maturation in premium, tight-grained French oak barriques. The result is a majestic expression of South Australian Cabernet: intensely concentrated, structurally flawless, and displaying a seamless harmony of plush dark fruit, refined oak, and velvety tannins.
🍾 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
Cabernet Sauvignon
🍷 ABV
14.5%