2023 Cullen Wines Chardonnay Kevin John

Community Tasting Notes (1) Avg Score: 93 points

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  2/14/2024 - Alexander Smith Likes this wine: 93 Points

  Fantastic visit to Cullen Wines, pure Biodynamic and Organic, these wines show a certain style, and I would go as far as saying are not typical for Margaret River and are more stylistic. I appreciated the tasting and understand why they have a large customer base, but personally I found their wines showed a little too much texture and lacked a little brightness. All of their wines showed to be shy initially, yet were driven with power.
  
  This is just painfully too young, I don't know why they release it at this age, 100% gingin, 80% new oak for 8 months. Citrus tart, orchard fruit, spice, asian pear, tropical notes? fennel, dried fruit, nutmeg, vanilla. the palate is delicate not showing much but then a huge amount of power arrives, slightly jagged at this stage with the oak, fruit not properly integrated, tons of layers, just not all there yet. Not sure this would be in my top 3 Chardonnay from WA.

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