While Platinum Shiraz fruit has usually been sourced from the Barossa, vintage conditions in 2000 and 2001 saw fruit sourced from the cooler Adelaide Hills, which enjoyed warmer vintages during those years. Platinum provides the winemaking team with the opportunity to strive for perfection, to craft a wine that epitomises vintage, variety and vineyard. Made in extremely limited quantities from low yielding vines, each year Wolf Blass Platinum Label is, quite literally, the pick of the crop. Prior to the 1998 debut vintage, the Wolf Blass winemaking team identified a number of vineyards worthy of the 'Platinum Vineyard' status. The key characters desired from these vineyards are concentration of fruit flavour and colour.

Note: The tasting note reflects the wine when it was tasted in 2001 upon its release. It has since evolved and developed further complexity following years of careful bottle maturation in our cellars. 
Our winemaking team have recently tasted this wine and confirmed its condition. It is drinking beautifully today showcasing intriguing aged characteristics that can only be derived with the passage of time.