Cullen Full Moon Opposite Saturn Harvest Diana Madeline 2023

Written By Campbell Mattinson
Bottle of Cullen Full Moon Opposite Saturn Harvest Diana Madeline 2023.

Cullen Full Moon Opposite Saturn Harvest Diana Madeline 2023
$350, 12.5% alcohol, screwcap, Margaret River.

This is the first Diana Madeline release under the Legacy Series. The grapes for this wine were from the first of cabernet of the 2023 harvest. This wine is a co-fermented blend of Cabernet Sauvignon (70%) and malbec.

This wine is sensational for its elegance. It carries fresh, vibrant, vital fruit, ripe and juicy, but it doesn’t shout its flavours, and it holds all of its notes without straining. This wine is the result of a long and practised tutelage. It’s all berries and bay, graphite and herbs, its woodsmoke notes playing softly. The length of the finish, as prolonged as it is, is mere confirmation of this wine stellar quality. 96 points.

Campbell Mattinson

This article was written by Campbell Mattinson, founder of The Winefront and mattinson, and former chief editor of Halliday.

When you pick up a wine book and see thousands of top-scoring wines, it’s hard to know which wine to choose. Mattinson guides you through this maze, giving you an honest view of the best Australian wines, the best wine stories, the best wine producers, the best value wines and simply, the best tasting wines. Importantly, Mattinson will tell you about the top-rated wines and also about the underrated wines. In short, Mattinson knows Australian wines inside and out.

Mattinson has been a photo-journalist since 1987. For the past 25 years he’s been a voice that you can trust when you’re looking for the best wines. He’s the only Australian to have won the Australian Wine Communicator of the Year Award more than once. He’s a past winner of a Louis Roederer International Wine Media Award, and is the author of the award-winning book The Wine Hunter. He’s not afraid to put a score beside a wine. But what he’d rather do, is tell you the wine’s story.

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