Stepping into the shoes of a renowned matriarch to take over a pioneering family business is not easy. Especially if that matriarch is Diana Madeleine Cullen of Cullen Wines in Margaret River.
But if anyone was going to follow in such revered footsteps – and forge new paths – then it was going to be Vanya Cullen, the youngest of Di’s six children, who worked alongside her mother for 20 years.
Sharing enquiring minds, independent spirits and prodigious energy, mother and daughter loom large in the relatively short history of this Western Australian winemaking region.
