2019 Nocturne Single Vineyard Chardonnay

Nocturne

Australia / Margaret River / Nocturne

This as ever is a very exciting wine from a vineyard on the edge. Despite always ripening late, loving to get botrytis and generally giving me extreme levels of anxiety, it’s a vineyard that makes a unique wine.
This is the single-vineyard Chardonnay from the 0.37Ha Tassell Park site in Treeton. The vineyard is interplanted with gin gin clone and Burgundian 277 clone. Handpicked very late on 9th April and 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.
The 2019 is a super compelling and incredibly complex wine. Pale green with Tassel Park’s hallmark flint, funk and cool sea-breeze character. The palate is incredibly long and fine and likely more balanced than these wines generally are in their youth. Subtle oak character frames crunchy white nectarine and a perfect al dente structure. – Julian & Alana Langworthy

October, 2021

Nick Stock

Gourmet Traveller WINE

97 points.

Impressively flinty and super fresh, this is a show-stopping chardonnay packed with fresh lemon, grapefruit and peach fruits. Some chalky and flinty nuances add real interest and give this a seductive, modern edge. The palate follows with lemon and peach tending to yellow grapefruit.

Erin Larkin

Halliday Wine Companion 2022

96 points.

We're starting to know what to expect from the Langworthy duo and this wine: flinty curry leaf, yellow peach, brine, crunchy acid and good length of flavour. This vintage is no exception, although perhaps a slightly leaner iteration due to the cooler year. Crushed macadamia and cashew are laced through the finish ... awesome. Yes. (Try decanting it for extra pleasure).

January, 2021

Gary Walsh

The Wine Front

95 points.

A bit of struck match and funk, white nectarine, lime, almond, brine and something like wet fern adding a slight green edge. It’s tight and crunchy, fine-boned and light, a subtle pineapple cream flavour in with the other more saline/savoury/nutty complex things. Distinct flinty and cool and clear feel, along with excellent length. Really good drinking now too. Frisky.

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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.