Cullen Red Moon 2024

Accolades:
95/100 – Robert Parker’s Wine Advocate

“The 2024 Red Moon is a blend of Malbec, Grenache, Mourvèdre, Petit Verdot and Merlot. The wine is intensely concentrated in fruit flavor and tannin, with pomegranate, mulberry, violets, licorice, fennel, blood plum and cherry. There are pink peppercorns and pressed roses, with ozone and tarmac in profusion. There’s a slinkiness to this wine that I appreciate; it is cleansing like summer rain, and it is inky and just a little bit chewy. The purity of expression here is so impressive. Fermented without additions, it matured in older oak for eight months.” – Robert Parker’s Wine Advocate

Tasting Note: Attractive purple with mulberry tones and a bright magenta rim. Juicy raspberry with tobacco, vanilla and savory satsuma plum and raisins.Remarkable structure with unctuous juicy red fruits lined with savory salty plums well-orchestrated tannins and expansive pomegranate with a polish mineral ironstone, the finish evoque flowers of rose and violets. Drink with lamb, Indian Nihari beef stew, roasted vegetables.

Winemaking Notes: 67% Metricup, 33% Cullen Vineyard.  This hand harvested fruit was destemmed and fermented with indigenous yeasts with no additions or fining at bottling. It was fermented 33% Malbec, 23% Grenache, 22% Mourvedre, 17% Petit Verdot, 5% Merlot. This wine is all about the fruit and purity of expression. Matured 8 months in old oak. It is imminently drink-able as a young wine but also will age well under screw cap closure for at least 15 years.

Certification: Organic, Biodynamic

Alcohol: 13.5%

Varietal: Malbec blend

Region: Margaret River, Western Australia