Wolf Blass Platinum Label Shiraz 2018

This is Australian wine royalty. A single-vineyard Barossa shiraz that's been 22 years in the making and scored nothing but 96s and 97s from every critic who matters. The Medlands Vineyard isn't just another patch of Barossa dirt. It's an exceptional pocket of 5-million-year-old sedimentary soils that creates shiraz of such purity and elegance, it's become the stuff of legend. So what makes this 97pt magic? As soon as you pop the top, this one doesn't just leap out of the glass, it envelopes the entire room: lifted aromas of blueberry, blackberry and dark plum that unmistakably scream "premium Barossa." Then the complexity hits - unsweetened chocolate, fresh coffee, warm oak spice. Pure silk on the palate. Rich, dark berry flavours given laser focus by fine French oak, with a definitive acid line, robust tannins and a finish that goes on forever.