2023 Nocturne SR Cabernets

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A bright, medium-bodied Margaret River Cabernet blend from Julian Langworthy, the 2023 SR Cabernets is smooth, structured, and effortlessly enjoyable.
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Julian Langworthy knows a thing or two about making seriously good Cabernet, and the 2023 Nocturne SR Cabernets is proof. This is classic Margaret River done with a light touch - medium-bodied, bright, and effortlessly drinkable, but with enough structure and detail to keep things interesting.

The fruit comes from top Yallingup vineyards, including Julian’s own Sheoak site, blended with Merlot and Malbec from nearby blocks. The 2023 vintage was spot on - mild, dry, and just right for producing wines with fine tannins and great balance. Aged for 14 months in a mix of new and seasoned oak, it’s smooth, layered, and built for long lunches, but will also sit happily in the cellar if you’re the patient type.

Julian reckons this is the best Cabernet blend he’s made yet, and honestly, it’s hard to argue. It’s got all the hallmarks of top-tier Margaret River Cabernet but with that trademark Nocturne drinkability - serious wine without the fuss.

95 points
"It is dripping with mulberries, cassis, and black plums, all spiced to the max with a hint of nori and tapenade, even a waft of freshly rolled tobacco pops up. Fuller-bodied and flush with sweet, ripe tannins, yet with some grip and texture, which adds definition—so too the stony/ferrous character and lithe acidity." 
- Jane Faulkner (Halliday Wine Companion)

95 points
"The 2023 SR Yallingup Cabernet Sauvignon is pure, fine, and seamless, with a flow of chalky tannins that encase the detailed core of fruit. It’s a quiet wine but a scintillatingly beautiful one at that. I detect blood orange and raspberry pip, coffee grounds, and raw cocoa. 2023 was a ripping vintage in Western Australia, and this wine is a poster child for the year that was."
- Erin Larkin (The Wine Advocate)

95 points – "The 2023 SR Yallingup Cabernet Sauvignon is pure, fine, and seamless, with a flow of chalky tannins that encase the detailed core of fruit. It’s a quiet wine but a scintillatingly beautiful one at that. I detect blood orange and raspberry pip, coffee grounds, and raw cocoa. 2023 was a ripping vintage in Western Australia, and this wine is a poster child for the year that was." – Erin Larkin (The Wine Advocate)

95 points - "Everything about this wine I love. The colour, a black-red; the aromas, all heady; and most importantly, the palate, all textural and detailed. It is very youthful, so its best days are ahead of it. However, it is dripping with mulberries, cassis, and black plums, all spiced to the max with a hint of nori and tapenade, even a waft of freshly rolled tobacco pops up. Fuller-bodied and flush with sweet, ripe tannins, yet with some grip and texture, which adds definition—so too the stony/ferrous character and lithe acidity. – Jane Faulkner (Halliday Wine Companion)

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    This wine is very nice, thank you.

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This wine tastes of the future or at least a future that I want to be part of, one where medium bodied wines of great complexity and huge drinkability are the norm …. Cabernets, simply put are just the most rewarding wines there are to drink.

Yallingup is our stomping ground and where the world’s greatest Cabernet and Cabernet Blends are being grown. Its deliciously warm but never hot, with the amazing dual influence of the Indian Ocean and Geographe Bay. In this SR6 Cabernets’ we have used our own beloved Sheoak Cabernet, Merlot from the Summus Vineyard and Malbec from the Robinson property that we are lucky enough to share the amazing valley with.

The 2023 vintage it is a thing…… Probably the most amazing thing about this mild largely dry season almost all varieties excelled. Not too hot not too cold it was the Goldilocks of season where everything was just right. This allowed us to produce medium weighted effortless wines with the finest of tannin structures.

We commenced picking Sheoak Cabernet on the 16th of April relatively late given the heat in the season. Darkly coloured, quite tense for this vineyard it showed an abundance of ripe coco laden tannins from the outset. Instantly perfumed and richly coloured the wine spent 12 days on skins with a peak fermentation temperature of around 26 degrees C. The wine was pressed to tank and settled briefly, before being transferred to a combination of new (15%) and two & three-year-old barrels to undergo malolactic fermentation. The wine was racked only once in this time and, after 14 months in oak, was emptied from barrel. At this juncture we decided the final makeup which is 47% Cabernet Sauvignon 43 % Merlot and 10% Malbec. These wines were then settled together clarified and bottled.

This expression of a cabernet blend is exactly how I envisage great luncheon claret to be, Epic drinkability yet huge complexity and verve. If Earnest Hemmingway was still alive he’d be pouring this in by the bucketful. A Cassis laden dream if you will, which is my absolute favourite Cabernet Blend yet. – Julian Langworthy

Price Bracket $31 to $40
Type Red
Body Medium Bodied
Variety Cabernet Sauvignon
Country Australia
Region Margaret River
Australian State WA
Reviewed By Halliday Wine Companion
The Wine Advocate
Critic Score 95
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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