2024 Cullen Grace Madeline Sauvignon Blanc Semillon

This wine is named after Grace Madeline, Diana Madeline's mother. Grace, originally from London, lived most of her life in Tasmania and was a suffragette, who loved nature as well as being mother to three daughters. Grace Madeline is blend of Sauvignon Blanc (74%) and Semillon (26%), planted in 1976 on Cullen Estate.

95 points, Huon Hooke, The Real Review
Ranked #1 of 17 2024 Sauvignon Blanc blends from Margaret River
Very complex young wine, savoury, ripe and not very varietal. The sauvignon character has been tamed. Creamy lees, cashewnut aromas. Intense and powerful, compact, focused and dry without austerity. Excellent wine.

95 Points, Jane Faulkner, The Wine Companion
It’s always a classy wine, a serious iteration of SBS forfeiting tropical fruit for texture, a light thread of phenolics, smoky/cedary/spicy oak and some funky flint. It’s all about the palate really, although there are plenty of citrus flavours – think grapefruit, Meyer lemon and pomelo. It’s ready now but this will only build more complexity in time.

94 Points, Ray Jorday, rayjordan.com.au
Named in honour of Diana Madeline’s mother. This is about 85% sauvignon blanc and 15% semillon. About 63% of the savvy is matured in new French oak for 8 months. A very hot year, but the fruit has been handled well. It has good lively concentration with a tight rein on the palate from the oak and acid. Has a creamy middle palate with lively stone fruit and citrus and a minerally fine length.