Cullen Wines Full Moon Fruit Day Kevin John Chardonnay 2025
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- $350
- Drink by: 2026-2051
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This remarkable wine is part of a twin release under the Legacy Series of Cullen Kevin John Chardonnays. It’s a thoroughly beautiful wine of extraordinary depth and concentration, yet at the same time, it displays remarkable finesse and delicacy. As background, it was hand-picked on the full moon, a biodynamic fruit day, when the moon was opposite Saturn, and was then whole-bunch pressed to oak, where it was fermented before maturation in older puncheons for about seven months. So, what does this mean? Well, it means you’re getting an absolutely pure expression of the vineyard and the fruit. The nose is initially restrained but complex, with quince, floral, light cashew and butterscotch characters, before the wine reaches the palate, where it releases its full potential. There’s tremendous depth and intensity, the result of what was a small vintage, and then it explodes and powers through to a very long finish. An exceptional wine.
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.
