President's Selection Chardonnay
⏳ Drinking Window
Typically best enjoyed within 3 to 7 years from the vintage release.
🍽️ Food & Wine Pairings
Roasted chicken, creamy mushroom risotto, grilled salmon
✨ Technical Specifications
The President's Selection Chardonnay represents a historic tier in the Wolf Blass portfolio, originally conceived as a selection of the winemaker's finest barrels to be shared with dignitaries and cellared for special occasions. Sourced from premium vineyards across South Australia—frequently drawing on cooler-climate parcels from regions like the Adelaide Hills to impart brightness and structure—this wine is crafted to showcase a harmonious balance of rich fruit and elegant oak. Fermented and matured in French oak barrels with regular lees stirring, it develops a creamy texture and complex layers of white peach, citrus, and toasted brioche, embodying the classic, generous Australian Chardonnay style with a refined modern edge.
🍾 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
Chardonnay
🍷 ABV
13.0-13.5%