Kevin John Cullen, AM (22 November 1922 – 9 February 1994) was an Australian medical doctor, researcher, and winemaker, active in Western Australia's South West.
[1][2] In 1963 he moved with his family to the US, where he continued work on longitudinal studies of child development on a research fellowship at the University of California, Berkeley.
[1][3] In 1966, the Cullens with friends and colleagues established a trial acre of vines, inspired by the work of John Gladstones, who had written papers about the potential of the area as a wine region.
He helped make the winery's first cabernet sauvignon in 1974 and regularly travelled to Bordeaux to buy more examples of the variety.
In 1986 he founded the Cullen Wines International Chardonnay Tasting, to assist in comparison between the varieties in Margaret River and other regions.