It’s a great honour and privilege to be named the 2020 Halliday Wine Companion Winemaker of the Year. A heartfelt thanks to my team: Matthew Dermody in the vineyard, Andy Barrett-Lennard in the winery and everyone at Cullen Wines who has contributed to this, past and present.
I would like to thank James Halliday AM and his team Jane Faulkner, Jeni Port and Ned Goodwin...
In the battle for the heavyweight crown of Australian wine, most pundits would have the championship between Penfold's Grange and Henschke's Hill of Grace. Grange's longevity, consistent quality and international reputation would probably earn it a narrow nod, though personal preference is the ultimate arbitrator.
So often linked, and both brilliant wines, they differ in many ways – think big budget corporate winemaking opposed to a small, ...
For a very long time in Australia, Coonawarra was King. Cabernet Sauvignon was the noble grape and nowhere did it half as well as Coonawarra. Then, in the 1990s, Shiraz began its inexorable climb to the top of the tree. If that wasn't enough to spoil a Coonawarra winemaker's day, that upstart place full of hippies and surfers in the far corner of Australia was suddenly making Cabernet that the critics were placing on a par with those from the ...
Vanya believes that the vines now have significant age to provide a much greater depth of fruit, describing the style of DM as “about freshness and complexity, structure and suppleness”. She believes that the soil, in warmer years, imparts ironstone nuances to the wines. In cooler years, this comes across more as a seaweed character.
Vanya is one of Australia's strongest proponents of biodynamics, which she sees as “the combination of ...
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