2022 Nocturne Single Vineyard Cabernet Sauvignon

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Julian Langworthy is one of the country's finest winemakers, and he believes this is the best Cabernet he makes. Hard to disagree... a seriously good Margaret River Cabernet here.
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Nocturne is the private label of highly decorated winemaker Julian Langworthy.

Julian has received plenty of attention since taking home the 2016 Jimmy Watson Trophy for his work on the Deep Woods Reserve Cabernet Sauvignon, but it's this winemaking project which is closest to his heart.

From his much-loved Sheoak Vineyard in the Yallingup Hills, he is striving to create an elegant, regional Cabernet Sauvignon of premium quality. This Cabernet always comes with a signature nori-roll-like character that transports you to the Western Australian coastline.

This wine is a fantastic medium-bodied expression of this vineyard. Supple and incredibly approachable, yet will mature beautifully over the long term. This wine should be on the hit list for every devotee of Margaret River Cabernet.

95 points
"Cabernet off the Sheaok Vineyard, and it’s a beauty... Understandably there’ll be a desire to open this now, but it will garner more complexity with age."
- Jane Faulkner (Halliday Wine Companion)

95 points
"This is a very strong release. It feels like it all came together."
- Gary Walsh (The Wine Front)

95 points - "Cherry, cassis, dried cranberry, biscuit spice and cocoa, and it’s also way less minty/mentholly than some of the other releases, though there’s still a faint signature of vineyard there. It’s dark fruited, but also has some earthy tobacco and black olive flavours, with something of a ferrous/ironstone grip to tannin, balanced acidity, and a finish of excellent length. This is a very strong release. It feels like it all came together." - Gary Walsh (The Wine Front)

95 points - "Cabernet off the Sheaok Vineyard, and it’s a beauty (although it comes in a way-too-heavy bottle about 1.5kg when full). No complaints about the flavour profile of blackberry essence and cassis, cedary oak spices and toasted nori, black olive tapenade and menthol. It’s fuller bodied with a ping of lively acidity, and the tannins are lovely – ripe yet with a cocoa-powder texture. Understandably there’ll be a desire to open this now, but it will garner more complexity with age." - Jane Faulkner (Halliday Wine Companion)

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  • JN
    Jan N.
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    4 years ago
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    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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2022 was as suggested prior a cassis flavoured dream. Whilst we
had very little fruit on the vines, a pitiful 2.8t / Ha. But what was
there tasted of raw emotion!
We commenced picking Sheoak Cabernet on the 14th of April,
some 3 weeks later than the tricky 21 vintage. What we got from
this lovely time in the sun, under an Indian summer so to speak,
was perfect tannins ripeness. Densely structured, instantly
perfumed and richly coloured. The wine spent 15 days on skins,
with a peak fermentation temperature of around 28 degrees C.
The wine was pressed to tank and settled briefly before being
transferred to a combination of new (25%) and two & three-year
old barrels to undergo malolactic fermentation. The wine was
racked only once in this time and, after 15 months in oak, was
emptied from barrel. 100% Cabernet from a very special vineyard.
The Sheoak vineyard makes expressive, medium-bodied silky structured wines. Dark fruit flavours and high notes of cassis and warm spice frame this slightly more brooding release of the Nocturne SV. While it’s amazingly accessible on release, this wine would love 3 to 6 years further maturation, which will really make this amazing wine shine. – Julian Langworthy

Price Bracket $51 to $100
Type Red
Body Full Bodied
Variety Cabernet Sauvignon
Country Australia
Region Margaret River
Australian State WA
Feature High Score
Reviewed By Halliday Wine Companion
The Wine Front
Critic Score 95
Size 750ml
Vintage 2022
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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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