97 Point Rated - Ken Gargett Winepilot 

"At this early stage of what promises to be a long life, the wine is taut and tense, dark fruits dominating. Seamless, there are notes of black cherries, black olives, old leather, tobacco leaf, spices, a hint of cocoa powder and even some mulberry. Fine balance, lovely silky tannins, supple texture, excellent length, the wine is true to its origins, the varieties and the maker. What more could you want? Cracking stuff. This is a special occasion wine."

96 Point Rated - Tyson Stelzer James Halliday Wine Companion 

"From the Geier vineyard, 86/14% cabernet/shiraz. Macerated for 28 days post-fermentation. Matured in 68/32% seasoned/new French oak barriques for 15 months. In the mighty legacy of Wolf Blass, it must have been tempting to single out the most powerful and impacting parcel to commemorate the 80th birthday of the man himself. This wine is nothing of the sort. Refreshingly, this leans more heavily on cabernet than traditional Blass blends, with a long post-ferment maceration building silkiness in its tannin profile. Supple, graceful and consummately polished, with an effortlessness that sets the pace for the modern Blass style. Confidently crafted tannins and grand persistence bode well for the future."

95 Point Rated - Huon Hooke The Real Review 

"Deep, dense purple/red colour, bright and brooding. The bouquet is very rich and essency, plummy and vanillan, with concentrated dark plum and chocolate flavours, full-bodied and ample in the mouth, the tannins soft and fine and mouth-coating. The shiraz is dominating at this stage, with blackberry and graphite notes chiming in. It's a rich, soft, cuddly wine with lovely balance and flavour, albeit not that detailed or complex. Perhaps that will come with time. It certainly has time on its side."

95 Point Rated - Tony Love Wine Pilot 

"The big, rich western Barossa cabernet has somewhat different front-end characters to those you see in many blends that source their cabernet fruit from either Coonawarra or Wrattonbully. That said there are beautiful plump cabernet berries here, more blackberry than blackcurrant, with a wave of plush and plummy shiraz to follow once the cabernet and oak notes have tapered off to allow its more familiar Barossan partner to speak. And it is then that you see the striking sweetness of this wine; rich and purposeful. All up, there is a harmonious track here, no chunks or weighty, structural ballast but an elite line and length with a robe of mid- weight tannins, smooth milk choc with plum and blackberry flavours to finish and a faint sense of amaro bitters in play that perhaps shows itself in contrast to the aforementioned sweetness…"

93 Point Rated - James Suckling

Gold Medal - James Halliday Wine Companion

Gold Medal - Barossa Wine Show 2022