97 Point Rated - Limestone Coast Wine Show 2024

96 Point Rated - Shanteh Wales Halliday Wine Companion 

"21 days on skins and matured for 16 months in new and seasoned French oak hogsheads and barriques. The colour is a deeply pigmented magenta. The purity of just-ripe, immaculate blackberries, currants and plums is astounding. It’s almost stark in its pureness of fruit and restraint of oak additions. Elongated tannins and lingering acidity with Nyon olive brine, nutmeg and the slightest touch of fresh picked bay leaf. Confident and completely unsullied. Stunning now and will only improve with age. This is a testament to scintillating fruit and the winemaker’s appreciation of it. It’s almost stark in its pureness of fruit and restraint of oak additions. Elongated tannins and lingering acidity with Nyon olive brine, nutmeg and the slightest touch of fresh picked bay leaf. Confident and completely unsullied. Stunning now and will only improve with age. This is a testament to scintillating fruit and the winemaker’s appreciation of it. Date: Jan 2024; Alcohol: 13.4%; Price: $45.00; Drink by: 2038"

96 Point Rated Jeremy Oliver 

"A pristine, perfectly focused and balanced cabernet whose faintly smoky, violet-scented and cedary aromas of cassis, dark plums and mulberries reveal notes of gravel, dried herbs and cigarbox. Superbly long and textural, its restrained but plush core of handsomely ripened fruit and meaty, earthy nuances drives long and linear down a drying, gravelly spine of fine tannins towards a lingering and savoury finish. Classically polished and stylish, with deft use of creamy, cedary oak, it’s an under-priced stunner for every serious cellar of Australian wine. Drink by: 2042-2052"

96 Point Rated - Ray Jordan Wine Pilot 

"This is the 67th vintage of this famous Australian wine first made in 1954, sourced from the best fruit of the Terra Rosa strip through Coonawarra. There have been some truly exceptional Black Labels over the years, and this is certainly right up there with the best of them. Typically, elegant and stylishly refined with bright fruits a feature. The fine tannin and oak combination support the firm thread through the core. It’s a wine with remarkable ageing potential. In fact, there are few better value cellaring wines than this icon. Drink: 2024-2054"

95 Point Rated Jeni Port Wine Pilot 

"Black Label is often referred to as a classic Aussie Cabernet. In part, that has to do with longevity – the 2022 release marks its 67th vintage. In part, it has to do with consistency of quality over those 67 vintages. The previous vintage in 2021 was from an outstanding year. Could the quality be followed up in ’22? It could! Black-as-night hues. Black plum, blackberry aromas dressed in dried herbs – oregano, mint, jalapeño – and chocolate. On the middle palate, this lovely combo melds and washes over the tongue. Oak tannins are marvelous, a real dichotomy, both fine and focused, but strong. A wine for the ages, unless you fancy a glass right now."

95 Point Rated - Ken Gargett Wine Pilot

"One of the most famous wines made in this country, dating back to 1954, it has proven on many occasions that it can age alongside the very best the world has to offer. Twenty, thirty, even forty years is often no challenge for this Coonawarra classic. The team only look to the best 20 to 25% of their terra rossa Cabernet for inclusion here. This vintage is a dark purple colour, with the nose weaving through a range of aromas, including mocha, aniseed, chocolate and blackberries. There is oak but the integration is well handled and the balance throughout is immaculate. A wine of elegance and intensity, finesse and focus with such a long finish. On the palate, there are notes of blueberries and florals. It offers fifteen to twenty years in the cellar, although experience has shown that a much longer life is more than likely."

95 Point Rated - Campbell Mattinson The Real Review 

''This is a super release. Tannic and bold but elegant and long. That’s it, we’re done, just buy a case. It tastes of blackcurrant, bay leaves, toast and redcurrant, with dusty cedar-flecked tannin reaching through. This tannin has an intent to it; a determination. Indeed the same could be said of the wine as a whole. It’s a beauty."

94 Point Rated - David Sly Decanter

94 Point Rated - Jamie Goode 

93 Point Rated - Huon Hooke The Real Review 

"Very deep, saturated purple colour with a powerful bouquet of fully ripe black fruits with oak clearly evident. Hints of black pepper and black tea, the palate medium-full bodied with a nicely balanced sheen of tannins supplying structure, and the finish rolls on quite long. A plush cabernet to either drink young or cellar. The style seems riper and richer than typical for this label"

92 Point Rated - Angus Hughson Wine Pilot 

18.5+/20 Matthew Jukes

“This is the 67th vintage of Black Label, and it must be noted that this is a very strong one in the history of this incredibly important wine.  With gorgeous blackcurrant and blackberry fruit on the nose, this is an expressive vintage and one of the more structured and bolder of late.  It possesses strident tannins and a formal stance on the palate that takes me back to my early introductions to this wine some four decades ago.  But of course, this wine could never have been made back then because the know-how in the vineyard and winery had not evolved to the skills Wynns deploys today, and this means the fruit is so much purer and more defined.  With stunning breeding, thrilling traction and spice and an immoveable sense of place, this is a genuinely great Black Label, and I am confident it will pop up in my 100 Best Australian Wines Report when this vintage makes it to the UK..” 

Gold Medal 

Limestone Coast Wine Show 2024

James Halliday Wine Companion 2024