Cullen Full Moon Opposite Saturn Harvest Diana Madeline 2023

6 Nov

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.

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Campbell Mattinson

This article was written by Campbell Mattinson, former chief editor of the Halliday Wine Companion book, former editor of Halliday magazine, former editor of Australian Sommelier Magazine and founder of the highly respected The Winefront site.

Mattinson has been an independent wine critic and photo-journalist since 1987. 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; is the author of the award-winning book The Wine Hunter; and is the author of the best-selling novel We Were Not Men. He’s also a winner of a St Kilda Film Festival Award (as writer-director) and is a former winner of the prized Best Australian Sports Writing Award.

Mattinson, who is 100% independent, puts a score out of 100 on every wine that he reviews. But what he’d rather do, is tell you the wine’s story.

https://www.campbellmattinson.com

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