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Wine Description
The Story
The refurbished icon wine Tom Cullity 2013 from Vasse Felix was launched in Spring 2017. Before 2013 the icon red wine of Vasse Felix was called Heytesbury. The blend is the same Cabernet-Malbec but Tom Cullity is a single-vineyard wine unlike its predecessor.
Vasse Felix, Margaret River's founding wine estate, was established by Dr Thomas Brendan Cullity in 1967. Among his first plantings were Cabernet Sauvignon and Malbec vines, from whic...
Vintage 2020
The 2020 wine vintage in Australia was a highly challenging, historically small, but remarkably high-quality year that was heavily shaped by extreme environmental events. The growing season was defined by a severe multi-year drought, record-breaking summer heatwaves, and catastrophic bushfires that caused severe smoke taint across vulnerable pockets of regions like the Hunter Valley and the Adelaide Hills. Consequently, total national grape yi...