31 Top 100 Wines of 2025 VINOUS

'The 2023 Cabernet Sauvignon Diana Madeline is almost pure Cabernet Sauvignon, with 3% Cabernet Franc, 2% Merlot, and splashes of Malbec and Petit Verdot. It opens with superb purity and definition, showing cassis and violet aromas with subtle leafy and cedary tones, plus beautifully integrated oak after 14 months in 40% new French barrels. A seamless balance exists between serious tannins and layered flavours, holding a steady hand through a finish of extreme length. In a word: stunning. The best vintage in recent memory.' 97 points - Angus Hughson, Vinous

99 points - Andrew Caillard MW (The Vintage Journal)
"A genuine Australian First Growth highlighting the genius of vineyard site, meticulous harvesting (five separate picking times), empathetic and imaginative winemaking... A classic vintage; up there with the best. Keep for a while to allow some bottle age development as you will be greatly rewarded."

99 points - Ken Gargett (Wine Pilot)
"Put bluntly, this is perhaps the finest young Australian Cabernet I can recall seeing. It is simply brilliant... Surely one of the greatest Cabernets made in this country, perhaps Vanya’s best ever, and it confirms that 2023 in Margaret River, a region of seemingly endless fine vintages – is truly special."

98 points - Erin Larkin (Robert Parker Wine Advocate)
"The 2023 Diana Madeline is an exciting wine... This gives everything that I could hope for in an early-release Cabernet... Is this the finest and best Diana Madeline made to date? Perhaps! What a wine. Highly recommended. It's the perfect example of great Australian Cabernet: power without weight. Look no further."

97 points - Angus Hughson, Vinous Top 100 Wines of 2025
'[..] In a word: stunning. The best vintage in recent memory.'

96+ points - Mike Bennie (The Wine Front)
"The quality of tannins is the part of the great experience, suede, refreshing, persistent, but you can see the pedigree of the wine in detail of dark berry fruits, espresso, mocha, chocolate and liquorice then bay leaf, brine and sea spray, salt bush and mahogany; all this delivers so much to the experience in its layers and layers. It sets out at medium weight and glides, an elegance, a confidence in balance and the harmony on hand. That it is generally just outrageously delicious is the wine’s ace in the hole."