Cullen Moon Opposite Saturn Flower Day Vanya 2020
- 99
- $900
- Drink by: 2023-2063
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When I saw the price before I tasted this wine, I did a double take. This is heady stuff pushing a Margaret River Cabernet into the rarefied air of Grange and Hill of Grace and at the same time making a statement about this great Cabernet region. It was a very good vintage managed at the very start of Covid. The fruit was naturally fermented and then had 13 weeks in terracotta amphorae before pressing to second fill oak. So, the oak influence is subdued but important in allowing the fruit to express itself. Lifted violet and red fruit merge with deeper dark fruit, there is a minerally fine tannin support with a slightly talcy feel. It’s brilliant and bright with a burst of luminosity. One of the very finest in more than 50 years of Margaret River red wine. Margaret River has earned the right to push its best wines into this price point, and there are none better than Cullen to lead the way.
Ray Jordan has been writing about wine for more than 40 years. His first articles were published in the early issues of national wine magazine Winestate in the late 1970s when he worked in Sydney as a newspaper correspondent. From 1989 Ray wrote more than 3000 columns as a regular newspaper wine columnist. He currently writes a regular column for the special business publication Business News and is one of the main contributors to national wine platform Wine Pilot. In 2017 Ray co-authored The Way it Was – A History of The Early Days of the Margaret River Wine Industry and previously wrote Wine in the Blood: Australia’s Family Wine Estates, published in Mandarin and English. In 2011 Ray was awarded WA Wine Press Club Jack Mann Memorial Medal for his contribution to the WA wine industry. His love of wine is as strong as his love of the blues and tasting the thousands of wines that cross his bench each year allows him to indulge in both.
