The Cullen winemaking approach is that they will do whatever it takes to make outstanding wines.

Quality is paramount and every winemaking step incorporates this philosophy.  The wines can only be as good as the grapes.

The uniqueness of Cullen Wines comes in part from the vineyard.

The role of the winemaker is to act as caretaker to the fruit, i.e. to understand and to realise the full potential of the vineyard and the fruit which comes into the winery.

As Diana and Kevin Cullen had such great foresight to plant on one of the great winegrowing sites in Margaret River, the winemakers job, working with such high quality fruit, has been made pleasurable.

There is, however, still a lot of experimentation and hard work which takes place in the winery at all times.

At all steps of the process the wine, or wine to be is treated gently and with great care.

The process of making the wine involves handling the fruit as little and as gently as possible.  Practices such as hand harvesting, very little fruit transport, sorting of the fruit before crushing, minimal wine movement, minimal fining and filtration are used.  This helps to ensure that the wine in the bottle is a true expression of the fruit that it is made from.

Biodynamics in the winery

To take this even further Cullen Wines are harvesting as much as possible using Maria Thun theory Basics. She suggests that the moon in a constellation has a favourable influence on the elemental relationship of fire which makes it better for harvest giving greater intensity and preservation of fruit flavour.

The wines are mostly making themselves with little or no intervention. This means indigenous yeast, no additions of any kind, minimal oak use and fining.

We would like to think that in both the vineyard and winery we are working with nature rather than trying to control it. This gives us the lands best and purest potential of expression being put into the bottle.