2023 Nocturne Sheoak Vineyard Cabernet Sauvignon

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Sourced from the finest section of the Sheoak Vineyard, the 2023 Nocturne Single Vineyard Cabernet Sauvignon is a beautifully poised, medium-bodied expression of Margaret River Cabernet, balancing depth, structure, and effortless elegance.
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Julian Langworthy’s Sheoak Vineyard Cabernet has long been a favourite within the Nocturne range, and the 2023 vintage takes things to another level. It was a slow, even season - cool mornings, mild days, and the kind of ripening window winemakers dream of. From one of the best makers of the variety in the country comes a Cabernet that’s refined, deeply structured, and effortlessly elegant.

Hand-picked from the best part of the Sheoak Vineyard slope, the fruit spent 14 days on skins before heading to barrel for 16 months, with 25% new oak in the mix. The result is silky, medium-bodied Cabernet with precision, depth, and incredible balance. The kind of wine that’s delicious now but built to reward patience.

Margaret River Cabernet is always impressive, but this is something special - fine-tuned, expressive, and unmistakably from one of Australia’s best regions for the variety.

97+ points
"The 2023 Single Vineyard Cabernet Sauvignon comes from the Sheoak Vineyard and leads with all the purity, precision, and balance that we have come to expect from the glorious 2023 season. You get cassis, raspberry pip, dried herbs, sheets of nori, iodine, and leather. The wine is potently intense; the fruit penetrates the palate and stains it with flavor... Margaret River is at its greatest when wines are like this—concentrated in flavor, weighty yet not heavy, with resolved, ductile tannins and purity of fruit. Unstoppable." 
- Erin Larkin (The Wine Advocate)

96 points
"A classy Cabernet with all manner of heady aromas and flavours. Expect a combo of mulberries, blackberries, and currants, freshly ground coffee beans, and iodine, plus lots of menthol. There are more savoury inputs of nori and tapenade, with cedary oak just-so. Fuller-bodied yet beautifully modulated with exceptional tannins."
- Jane Faulkner (Halliday Wine Companion)

97+ points – "The 2023 Single Vineyard Cabernet Sauvignon comes from the Sheoak Vineyard and leads with all the purity, precision, and balance that we have come to expect from the glorious 2023 season. You get cassis, raspberry pip, dried herbs, sheets of nori, iodine, and leather. The wine is potently intense; the fruit penetrates the palate and stains it with flavor. The wine is still opening up—so young as to be inchoate—with a long, bright future ahead. It has a glittery, purple, shimmering sort of vibrancy to it, as if lit by its own inner light. Margaret River is at its greatest when wines are like this—concentrated in flavor, weighty yet not heavy, with resolved, ductile tannins and purity of fruit. Unstoppable." – Erin Larkin (The Wine Advocate)

96 points – "A classy Cabernet with all manner of heady aromas and flavours. Expect a combo of mulberries, blackberries, and currants, freshly ground coffee beans, and iodine, plus lots of menthol. There are more savoury inputs of nori and tapenade, with cedary oak just-so. Fuller-bodied yet beautifully modulated with exceptional tannins." – Jane Faulkner (Halliday Wine Companion)

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    2022 Nocturne Single Vineyard Cabernet Sauvignon
    Rated 5 out of 5 stars
    Beautiful rich cab sauvignon - my new favourite

    I have been a fan of Cab sauv for years.. I love it.

    This one is great. Big, fresh, beautifully balanced wine ... absolutely delicious and missing that OTT mouth puckering overdose of tannin that sometimes marrs otherwise great Cabs.

    My wine of the season. HIGHLY RECOMMENDED

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Vintage & Vineyard
The 2023 vintage was a ‘Goldilocks’ season—not too hot, not too cold—allowing for perfect tannin ripeness. This wine comes from what is considered the best part of the Sheoak Vineyard slope, producing an effortless Cabernet with the finest tannin structure.

Harvest Date: 6th April (relatively early due to the even nature of the vintage)
Profile: Darkly coloured, yet fine and ethereal from the outset
Aromatics: Instantly perfumed with richly expressive fruit
Winemaking
Fermentation: 14 days on skins with a peak temperature of 26°C
Pressing & Maturation: Pressed to tank, settled briefly, then transferred to a mix of:
New oak (25%)
Two- & three-year-old barrels for malolactic fermentation
Aging: 16 months in oak, with only the best barrels selected for the final blend
Bottling: Settled, clarified, and bottled
Tasting Notes
The Sheoak Vineyard produces expressive, medium-bodied wines with silky structure.

Flavour Profile: Dark fruit flavours with high notes of cassis and warm spice
Texture: Fine and completely poised, with an elegant tannin framework
Cellaring Potential
While amazingly accessible on release, this wine will evolve beautifully over 5 to 8 years, truly allowing it to shine.

– Julian Langworthy

Price Bracket $51 to $100
Type Red
Body Full Bodied
Variety Cabernet Sauvignon
Country Australia
Region Margaret River
Australian State WA
Reviewed By Halliday Wine Companion
The Wine Advocate
Critic Score 97
96
Alcohol 14%
Size 750ml
Vintage 2023
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Nocturne Wines

Nocturne is the personal side label of highly decorated Margaret River winemaker Julian Langworthy.

Julian has won just about everything there is to win in Australian wine, having taken out Winemaker of the Year for the 2019 Halliday Wine Companion, the 2016 Jimmy Watson Memorial Trophy at Royal Melbourne in the space of just a couple of years.

The Nocturne wines are all small production with Jules focusing on quality rather than quantity in this range.

The fruit is procured through Julian's connections with local growers developed over his lifetime in the Margaret River region. If you're looking for hidden gems of Margaret River, the Nocturne wines are it.

Winemaker Julian Langworthy Nocturne

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