Cullen Diana Madeline

Red
Australia
Margaret River
Cabernet Sauvignon

Tracked vintages: 25
Community notes: 236
Merchant offers: 120

What we know about this wine

Critics: 98/ 1002023 · nearest vintage with a critic score
Real drinkers: 89/ 100236 notes, every vintage
Market price: £71per 75 cl2023 · nearest vintage with a price · 6-bottle in-bond trade, March 2026
Drinking window: 2014–2029drinking2006 · nearest vintage with a window

Flavour and structure

What drinkers taste in this wine across its vintages, and how it is built: body, acidity, tannin and sweetness on a five-point scale, with the number of ratings behind them.

Structure from 293 community ratings, read 2026-08-12. Style: Australian Cabernet Sauvignon.

Body4.0 / 5: LightFull
Acidity3.6 / 5: SoftCrisp
Tannin3.4 / 5: SmoothGrippy
Sweetness1.6 / 5: DrySweet

Black fruit · cassis, blackcurrant, blackberry, plum, black fruit
Oak · oak, tobacco, chocolate, cedar, vanilla
Earth · leather, earthy, smoke, graphite, minerals
Spice · eucalyptus, mint, pepper, licorice, cinnamon
Red fruit · cherry, red fruit, raspberry, red cherry, strawberry
Floral · violet, lavender, perfume, chamomile, acacia

Grapes: Cabernet Sauvignon. Proportions are not recorded.

Descriptors are the words drinkers used most, grouped; counts are mentions. Tannin is shown only where it was measured.

Realised in-bond trades£31–£90Shop asks£113–£113GBP per 75 cl · 16 priced vintages

2000One point per priced vintage. Years with no price we can stand behind are not drawn.2023

Vintages

Each vintage has its own page with both scores, the drinking window and the merchant price range. The meter is the score on a 60-100 scale and its colour is where that vintage stands against its own drinking window. Prices are per 75cl, with the case size and month they were taken from.

Drinkinginside its stated window
Window not recordedthe vintage carries no window, so the meter shows its score alone

Best scored: 2018; 98 / 100 from a critic
Drinking now: 2006; drinking, window 2014–2029
Lowest price: 2006; £31 per 75 cl

Price by vintage

One monthly median per vintage, divided by the case size it was quoted in, so the bars are the same unit. These are our own aggregates, not offers: nobody will sell you a median.

Solid: a realised in-bond tradeHatched: what a merchant is asking, which nobody has paid

Diana Madeline monthly median by vintage, per 75cl · Each bar is one month of one SKU; the table below names the case size, the tape and the month behind every figure. 7 vintages are priced in a case size the merchant did not state, so no per-bottle figure is drawn for them

View as a table

Diana Madeline monthly median by vintage, per 75cl
Vintage	Price / 75cl	Critic score	In drink window	Basis
2023	£71	97.6	—	per 75cl, from a 6-bottle in-bond trade, March 2026
2021	£79	96.3	—	per 75cl, from a 6-bottle in-bond trade, July 2023
2019	£54	97.5	—	per 75cl, from a 6-bottle in-bond trade, January 2026
2018	£75	98	—	per 75cl, from a 6-bottle in-bond trade, October 2025
2017	£89	96	—	per 75cl, from a 6-bottle in-bond trade, April 2024
2016	£83	96	—	per 75cl, from a 6-bottle in-bond trade, March 2023
2014	£65	95.7	—	per 75cl, from a 6-bottle in-bond trade, August 2022
2013	£90	95.5	—	per 75cl, from a 1500 ml in-bond trade, May 2021
2012	£52	96.2	—	per 75cl, from a 6-bottle in-bond trade, February 2020
2010	£62	93.5	—	per 75cl, from a 6-bottle in-bond trade, April 2021
2007	£65	93.3	—	per 75cl, from a 6-bottle in-bond trade, November 2021
2006	£31	92	Yes	per 75cl, from a 6-bottle in-bond trade, January 2017
2005	£73	95	—	per 75cl, from a 6-bottle in-bond trade, September 2024
2004	£56	94.3	—	per 75cl, from a 6-bottle in-bond trade, December 2019
2003	£40	93	—	per 75cl, from a 6-bottle in-bond trade, November 2019
2000	£113	—	—	per 75cl, from a single-bottle shop ask, September 2026

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