2005 Cullen Diana Madeline Cabernet Merlot Magnum

19.0/20 points - Peter Forrestal, Top 100 Drops
My top WA wine of the year. It's opulent, succulent, well structured, fleshy and velvety, with fine, slinky tannins.

97 points - Jeremy Oliver
Wow! Elegance meets structure, meets sophistication. Scented with violets and sweet cedary new oak, its perfume of small red and black berries, dark cherries reveals complex earthy undertones with a hint of gravel. Full to medium in body but steeped with vibrant flavours of dark berries, cherries, its seductively smooth but opulent palate revels in its marriage of fruit, oak and firm, Graves-like chalky tannin. Exceptionally long and perfectly harmonious, it's both polished and powerful, with a brilliant future. Drink 2025-2035.

96 points and Top 100 Wines of 2007 - James Halliday, The Weekend Australian
Vanya Cullen only knows how to make great wine, here juggling cabernet sauvignon (75%), merlot, malbec, cabernet franc and petit verdot. In archetypal Cullen style, it has a backbone of ripe but persistent tannins to the array of black fruit flavours, which have the density and intensity to easily carry the wine through to its very long plateau of maturity. Drink 2010-2030. 

Top 20 Wines of 2007 - Philip Rich, Australian Financial Review 
This beautifully crafted, concentrated and medium-to-full-bodied wine is the latest in a long list of great Margaret River cabernets from Vanya Cullen over the years. Ultra perfumed with violets, cedar, earth, blackcurrants, dark cherries and a hint of complexing bell pepper, the palate is still backward – with finely grained and very persistent tannins rounding out a wine which will require at least five years to soften. Should be drinking well 15 to 20 years from now.