2018 Cullen Wines 'Vanya' Flower Day
From the Winemaker:
The best batch of Cabernet Sauvignon harvested on a full flower day from the great 2018 vintage. It is 100% Cabernet Sauvignon crushed into amphora and aged on skins for 56 days before pressing with a short maturation in 100% puncheon oak for 5 months. It has had no fining.
Colour: Dark red mulberry, purple haze.
Bouquet: Dusty rose, cardamom, dark chocolate, cherry, mulberry, ironstone, thyme, Wilyabrup soils, completely intoxicating in its depth and complexity with freshness and life.
Palate: Reflecting the purity and power of the 2018 vintage, poise, with fruit concentration and length spread across the palate. Quintessential Cullen Wilyabrup Cabernet Sauvignon in a glass from a great vintage. Plum, mulberry, cherry and cigar box, with fine grained tannins wrapping around the palate and swirling around the senses like a giant wave of flavour returning back to the shore over and over. So much length and persistence.
(Cullen Wines Official Website)
Critic Reviews:
“Supple, layered and ridiculously long, this is as close to a spiritual experience as wine can take us. Utterly thought-provoking, speech-stopping cabernet. Elegant in a way that has never previously been explored in Australian cabernet. And that oak? Imperceptible.”
99 Points Erin Larkin, Halliday Wine Companion
“Aromas of purple berries, blackcurrants ,violets, forest wood, a little cedar and some leafy tones, as well as sweet roasting herbs. Iodine and sappy elements, too. Very complex and nuanced. The palate is so fleshy and full of flavor with bright and juicy red plums, mulberries and dark plums and something almost like dark peaches. Very fine powdery tannins carry long and gently drying. This has a lot of power, but it’s so elegant. Very impressive. Velvety, yet dense. 640 bottles only. From biodynamically grown grapes. Drink or hold.”
98 Points James Suckling, jamessuckling.com
From the Winemaker:
The best batch of Cabernet Sauvignon harvested on a full flower day from the great 2018 vintage. It is 100% Cabernet Sauvignon crushed into amphora and aged on skins for 56 days before pressing with a short maturation in 100% puncheon oak for 5 months. It has had no fining.
Colour: Dark red mulberry, purple haze.
Bouquet: Dusty rose, cardamom, dark chocolate, cherry, mulberry, ironstone, thyme, Wilyabrup soils, completely intoxicating in its depth and complexity with freshness and life.
Palate: Reflecting the purity and power of the 2018 vintage, poise, with fruit concentration and length spread across the palate. Quintessential Cullen Wilyabrup Cabernet Sauvignon in a glass from a great vintage. Plum, mulberry, cherry and cigar box, with fine grained tannins wrapping around the palate and swirling around the senses like a giant wave of flavour returning back to the shore over and over. So much length and persistence.
(Cullen Wines Official Website)
Critic Reviews:
“Supple, layered and ridiculously long, this is as close to a spiritual experience as wine can take us. Utterly thought-provoking, speech-stopping cabernet. Elegant in a way that has never previously been explored in Australian cabernet. And that oak? Imperceptible.”
99 Points Erin Larkin, Halliday Wine Companion
“Aromas of purple berries, blackcurrants ,violets, forest wood, a little cedar and some leafy tones, as well as sweet roasting herbs. Iodine and sappy elements, too. Very complex and nuanced. The palate is so fleshy and full of flavor with bright and juicy red plums, mulberries and dark plums and something almost like dark peaches. Very fine powdery tannins carry long and gently drying. This has a lot of power, but it’s so elegant. Very impressive. Velvety, yet dense. 640 bottles only. From biodynamically grown grapes. Drink or hold.”
98 Points James Suckling, jamessuckling.com
From the Winemaker:
The best batch of Cabernet Sauvignon harvested on a full flower day from the great 2018 vintage. It is 100% Cabernet Sauvignon crushed into amphora and aged on skins for 56 days before pressing with a short maturation in 100% puncheon oak for 5 months. It has had no fining.
Colour: Dark red mulberry, purple haze.
Bouquet: Dusty rose, cardamom, dark chocolate, cherry, mulberry, ironstone, thyme, Wilyabrup soils, completely intoxicating in its depth and complexity with freshness and life.
Palate: Reflecting the purity and power of the 2018 vintage, poise, with fruit concentration and length spread across the palate. Quintessential Cullen Wilyabrup Cabernet Sauvignon in a glass from a great vintage. Plum, mulberry, cherry and cigar box, with fine grained tannins wrapping around the palate and swirling around the senses like a giant wave of flavour returning back to the shore over and over. So much length and persistence.
(Cullen Wines Official Website)
Critic Reviews:
“Supple, layered and ridiculously long, this is as close to a spiritual experience as wine can take us. Utterly thought-provoking, speech-stopping cabernet. Elegant in a way that has never previously been explored in Australian cabernet. And that oak? Imperceptible.”
99 Points Erin Larkin, Halliday Wine Companion
“Aromas of purple berries, blackcurrants ,violets, forest wood, a little cedar and some leafy tones, as well as sweet roasting herbs. Iodine and sappy elements, too. Very complex and nuanced. The palate is so fleshy and full of flavor with bright and juicy red plums, mulberries and dark plums and something almost like dark peaches. Very fine powdery tannins carry long and gently drying. This has a lot of power, but it’s so elegant. Very impressive. Velvety, yet dense. 640 bottles only. From biodynamically grown grapes. Drink or hold.”
98 Points James Suckling, jamessuckling.com
