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    18
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Average auction price: Prices for more recent vintages, especially the better ones, are creeping up but in general they do not appreciate anything like the top European wines. This is, in part, due to auctions not playing such an important role in wine sales in Australia. The wines tend to sit within A$20 to $50 of the current release price, which is now around A$120 to $150: brilliant buying in comparison to wines of equivalent quality from certain other regions of the world. The reality is that although the wines are exported to numerous markets, they will very rarely be found on the secondary market outside Australia. Expect that to change in time.




1981 A hot, dry vintage. Moderate alcohol of 13%. Yields of 1.2 tonnes per acre. As well as the Cabernet and Merlot, there is a dollop of Malbec. At the time, it was seen as an atypically tannic vintage. Vanya discovered in her family's records that they needed ten egg whites per barrel.
As Vanya says: “Old wines make you feel very humble and, yes, choosing a good site has helped but my parents didn't really know that at the time. Yet, it was Mum's first vintage and you think, 'Wow, how good does that look?'” Perhaps the most insightful comment came from Peter Mammone, Cullen's viticulturist, who readily admits to not being much of a taster. “That wine smells like its soil.'' No one would know that better than Mammone. Vanya was utterly delighted, and for her it was a vindication of decades of work. Her reply was that, “it was such a beautiful point to make”.

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Margaret River, Margaret River
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