2022 Nocturne SR Cabernets

Big, rich Margaret River Cabernet Merlot. Another great cuveé from Julian Langworthy that punches above its price point.
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The SR Cabernets is a welcome addition to the Nocturne family.

It's made as a fleshier, more slurpable style of Margaret River Cabernet blend, built for drinking while you wait for the excellent Nocturne Single Vineyard Cabernet to mature.

The fruit comes from Yallingup, the Margaret River sub-region that Julian Langworthy believes makes some of the best Cabernet blends in the world.

The Cabernet component comes from their beloved Sheoak vineyard (the source of their SV Cabernet) and it's blended with small portions of Merlot and Malbec from the neighbouring vineyard farmed by the Simpsons.

It's a top-value Cabernet blend from this dynamic label. Easy drinking at a great price.

94 points
"It’s a wine of interest and impact, and mainly, I just enjoy that it’s a pretty serious Cabernet for not a lot of money."
- Gary Walsh (The Wine Front)

93 points - "The final blend 69% cabernet sauvignon, 21% merlot and 10% malbec, and it feels light as much as a delight. Cassis, mulberries and baking spices plus licorice and a ferrous note. The palate is a tad fuller this vintage with raw silk tannins sashaying throughout. Best of all, ready to pour right now." - Jane Faulkner (Halliday Wine Companion)

94 points - "Red and black fruit, shag tobacco, dried flowers, a little mint and cocoa. It’s medium to full-bodied, but what I like about it is this earthy sort of ferrous character it has, along with juicy cherry and blackberry, acidity has a firm almost ‘minerally’ cut, and the finish is long, and pleasingly grainy and chewy. It’s a wine of interest and impact, and mainly, I just enjoy that it’s a pretty serious Cabernet for not a lot of money." - Gary Walsh (The Wine Front)

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    Huw G.
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    2 years ago
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    very nice

    This wine is very nice, thank you.

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Yallingup is our stomping ground and where the world’s greatest Cabernet and Cabernet blends are being grown! It’s deliciously warm but never hot, with the amazing dual influence of the Indian Ocean and Geographe Bay. For this year’s Cabernets, we have again used our own beloved Sheoak Cabernet and added some of our neighbour’s Merlot from the Simpson property, with which we I am lucky enough to share the amazing valley. There’s also a little splash of their Malbec, too. I’d be lying if I said it was easy, I lost hair, and the hair I had left went grey but we got there in the end… Inheritably elegant is how the ‘21 Cabernets should be described: resolved, gentle tannins with lovely, lightly framed red fruits and great length. It quietly asks you to take another sip, to eat some food to share with friends, lovers, co-workers and some dude named Frank.

Price Bracket $31 to $40
Type Red
Body Full Bodied
Variety Cabernet Sauvignon
Country Australia
Region Margaret River
Australian State WA
Reviewed By Halliday Wine Companion
The Wine Front
Critic Score 93
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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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