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Cullen Mangan East Block

  • Red
  • Australia
  • Margaret River
  • Cabernet Sauvignon
  • Cabernet Franc
  • Malbec
  • Merlot
  • Petit Verdot
  • Carménère
Tracked vintages
5
Community notes
55
Merchant offers
8

What we know about this wine

Critics
96/ 1002016 · nearest vintage with a critic score
Real drinkers
81/ 10055 notes, every vintage
Market price
£28per 75 cl2016 · nearest vintage with a price · 6-bottle in-bond trade, May 2020
Drinking window
2019–2036peak2016 · 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 25 community ratings, read 2026-08-12. Style: Australian Bordeaux Blend.

Body4.8 / 5
LightFull
Acidity3.9 / 5
SoftCrisp
Tannin3.5 / 5
SmoothGrippy
Sweetness1.4 / 5
DrySweet
  • Black fruit · plum, cassis, blackberry, blueberry, black fruit
  • Oak · oak, chocolate, clove, dark chocolate, vanilla
  • Red fruit · cherry, raspberry, cranberry, red currant, red plum
  • Earth · leather, smoke, earthy, cocoa, forest floor
  • Spice · pepper, dried herbs, licorice, cinnamon, eucalyptus
  • Floral · violet, rose petal

Grapes: Cabernet Sauvignon, Cabernet Franc, Malbec, Merlot, Petit Verdot, Carménère. Proportions are not recorded.

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

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.

  • Peakinside the middle half of its stated window
  • Window not recordedthe vintage carries no window, so the meter shows its score alone
Best scored
2016
96 / 100 from a critic
Drinking now
2016
peak, window 2019–2036
Lowest price
2016
£28 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.

Mangan East Block monthly median by vintage, per 75cl£0£10£202016£28

Solid: a realised in-bond trade

Mangan East Block 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. 1 vintage is priced in a case size the merchant did not state, so no per-bottle figure is drawn for it
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Mangan East Block monthly median by vintage, per 75cl
VintagePrice / 75clCritic scoreIn drink windowBasis
2016£2896Yesper 75cl, from a 6-bottle in-bond trade, May 2020

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