2023 Nocturne SR Chardonnay

Margaret River Chardonnay that offers plenty of flavour and plenty of value.
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It's becoming increasingly difficult to find good Margaret River Chardonnay at a price point that you can drink any night of the week.

This is part of their Sub-Regional range, exploring the pockets of Margaret River that excite them the most. The Chardonnay fruit for this wine comes from a couple of small vineyards in Treeton, to the north-east of Margaret River township.

If you're familiar with the way these two make Chardonnay, it will come as no surprise that this packs a punch, albeit a slightly more mid-weight example of the variety than you might typically expect from Margaret River.

It's open for business. The perfect wine to scratch the MR Chardy itch when it creeps up on you.

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Treeton. It’s a weird little area full of hillbillies, dairy cows and interestingly some great Chardonnay vineyards…. Cold at night, warm in the day, with deep silver/grey sands that I think produce great Chardonnay. This wine is a combination of two vineyards, that in this year were just right – awesome in fact. Grace & White which has been with me a while and a new vineyard called Wilsons which is very exciting to have hold of another tiny and unique fruit resource. 2022 is another very good vintage, it also does suck a bit as there was very little of it – crops were at an all-time low on many sites and these Chardonnay vineyards were no exception. ‘22 was also pretty darn warm at times which goes against the recent vintage grain in Margaret River, but it seemed no issue for these great sites that sailed through the heat with nary an issue.The season was early-ish in terms of picking dates. But, as always, these vineyards were some of the last, both being harvested on the 28th of February. Weirdly, this was actually about the same time as the cooler and wetter 2021 vintage, and very similar to the very mild and much heavier cropping 2023 vintage… go figure.

The grapes were harvested by hand and whole bunch-pressed directly to new, one and two-year-old puncheons, with a smattering of barriques for good measure. We did no settling or fining. The juice was then very carefully neglected and allowed to undergo spontaneous fermentation, which kicked off on day three after pressing. After a four-week ferment the wine remained on gross lees un-sulphured until September of that year. In November, it was emptied from barrel, settled, filtered and bottled.- Julian Langworthy, Nocturne

Price Bracket $31 to $40
Type White
Body Medium Bodied
Variety Chardonnay
Country Australia
Region Margaret River
Australian State WA
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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