President's Selection Cabernet Sauvignon
⏳ Drinking Window
Typically best enjoyed 5 to 12 years from vintage release.
🍽️ Food & Wine Pairings
Roasted lamb shanks, grilled ribeye steak, aged Cheddar cheese
✨ Technical Specifications
First released in the late 1970s, the President's Selection from Wolf Blass was conceived as a range of wines of outstanding quality, selected from the finest parcels of the vintage. Wolfgang Blass, the charismatic founder, sought to craft a Cabernet Sauvignon that defied the tough, astringent style of the era, opting instead for a wine defined by plush fruit, seamless oak integration, and immediate drinkability coupled with aging potential. Sourced from premium vineyards across South Australia—most notably Langhorne Creek and McLaren Vale—this Cabernet Sauvignon is celebrated for its rich, dark fruit profile, subtle minty notes, and structured yet velvety tannins, matured in a combination of French and American oak hogsheads.
🍾 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
14.0% - 14.5%