Cullen Wines regard this vintage of its Margaret River White as an outstanding expression of this wine style. The winemakers at Cullen went to considerable lengths to blend together, in the right proportion, fruit from all of the white grape varieties grown in the vineyard.
The development of the fruit for this Mangan Vineyard Sauvignon Blanc Semillon benefited from the consistent and dry weather that prevailed in the lead up to vintage, resulting in the production of a very good wine. This wine has the classic minerality that characterizes this vineyard blend.
Although the Mangan Vineyard had become ten years old in 2006 and was clearly producing very high quality fruit from its gravelly soils, it was becoming increasingly evident that the characteristics of that fruit...
This delicious and elegant wine provides an excellent complement to the more powerful, but likewise excellent Sauvignon Blanc Semillon made from fruit produced on the Cullen Vineyards...
This is a first rate example of the unique style that has been developed by Cullen Wines from blending the two great white grape varieties of Bordeaux.
The warm dry summer of 2010 led to good yields of very high quality Chardonnay fruit that resulted in the production of a slightly richer wine than the excellent 2009. Indeed, 2010 represented the fourth consecutive...
This Chardonnay was made from fruit grown on three separate blocks, in which the loamy surface soil overlays laterite and clay. The oldest Chardonnay vines were planted in 1976 and the youngest in 1988 and thus even the latter are well over twenty years old.
The near perfect, dry and warm conditions during the growing season led to a particularly early harvest of the Pinot Noir. The favourable conditions and the use of biodynamic practices have produced a Pinot Noir, which has a lower alcohol than usual and is both elegant and intense.
Margaret Rive experienced another excellent winegrowing season in 2011. Dry farmed Merlot grapes were hand picked at the Mangan vineyard and naturally fermented.
2010 was the fourth outstanding vintage in Margaret River and this applied to both red and white varieties. During November 2009, there was good rainfall, which helped carry the vines through some hot weather in subsequent months.
This wine was made on a certified Biodynamic, Carbon Neutral and naturally powered estate. It is a naturally fermented wine blended with 79% Cabernet Sauvignon and 21% Merlot. It displays ripe, densely flavoured...
The Mangan red wine is becoming increasingly popular, which is not surprising when you consider the quality and attractiveness of this wine style which is unique to Cullen Wines.
The 2010 season produced wines which were abundant in fruit and had excellent balance. In accordance with biodynamic principles, the grapes were hand harvested on fruit days from the Cabernet Sauvignon vines...
Vanya has referred to 2009 as the Mozart vintage because all of the wines produced in that year are in perfect harmony and balance. The quality, purity and vibrancy of the fruit produced in 2009 are exquisitely expressed in the Diana Madeline of this year.
This is a great wine and one of the very finest Bordeaux blends ever produced at Cullens. It was made using all of the five red grape varieties of Bordeaux, with Cabernet Sauvignon comprising three quarters of the blend.
Even at this young stage in its development, we are confident that the quality of the 2004 Diana Madeline Cabernet Sauvignon Merlot ranks with the 1995, 1999 and 2001 vintages, which were the previous outstanding vintages of the last fifteen years.
