2018 Nocturne Single Vineyard Chardonnay

Nocturne

Australia / Margaret River / Nocturne

In Margaret River it’s fair to say we’re pretty lucky when it comes to lovely, even growing seasons. Yet sometimes certain seasons stand tall, and the 2018 season may just stand the tallest in my more than 20 harvests. This is single-vineyard Chardonnay from the 0.37Ha Tassell Park site in Treeton. The vineyard is interplanted with gin gin clone and Burgundian 277 clone. Whole bunch-pressed directly to new, one- and two-year-old puncheons, with no settling or fining processes. Spontaneous fermentation, with the wine staying on gross lees unsulphured until September of that year. In December the wine was emptied from barrel, settled, filtered and bottled. – Julian & Alana Langworthy

James Halliday

Halliday Wine Companion 2021

97 points

From a 0.37ha site on the Tassell Park Vineyard. Whole-bunch pressed to new and used puncheons, wild-fermented, no intervention until SO2 in Sept '18. A wine with the precision of a rapier as you taste it. It's slightly reductive, which I see as a positive. It certainly leaves the mouth fresh.

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About Nocturne

Nocturne is a husband-and-wife partnership between recently-crowned Jimmy Watson-winner Julian Langworthy and his wife Alana. The two met as young winemakers in South Australia and have been producing their own side-project wines together for 10 years. Nocturne, however, is a serious new venture producing single-vineyard wines from exceptional sites in Margaret River. This is the region where Julian grew up and where he’s transformed Deep Woods Estate since becoming chief winemaker in 2011. In the process he’s won just about every prize imaginable, including the 2016 Jimmy for his Reserve Cabernet on his way to becoming James Halliday’s 2019 Winemaker of the Year.

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Julian and Alana are smart, ambitious and acutely sensitive to the best fruit sources in the region – including their pride and joy, the newly acquired Sheoak Vineyard and its beautifully mature Cabernet vines. It’s a pleasure to commend to you these dazzlingly vibrant, stylish and engaging wines that are a real joy to drink.