WHEN you’ve won almost every award your industry can give you, been honored by two national governments, add in a couple of honorary doctorates for services to that industry and the community and achieved a professional reputation possibly unmatched by your peers - and you’re less than two years short of 90 - you could be excused for saying, in whatever the German words might be, thanks guys, I’ve had enough – I’m out of here.
But that’s not Wolf Blass.
He could easily have just gone on going to the races to watch his racehorses win, shooting competitively with his .22 pistol most Saturday mornings, and waited for the next footy season to watch if his beloved Norwood can win the SANFL premiership again.
He’ll do all of that, and he remains an international ambassador for Wolf Blass Wines, which has won more than 10,000 national and international wine show awards since he started the company in 1966 – then named Bilyara, or Eaglehawk.
But six decades after the young German winemaker
