2017 Nocturne Nebbiolo Rosé

Nocturne

Australia / Margaret River / Nocturne

2017 was a great season for our barrel-fermented rosé. Light, fine flavours became present in the fruit at nice low sugar levels, allowing expressive generous wines that are nicely in check with regards to alcohol.
The fruit comes from a single site, the Lentondelle Vineyard in the Carbanup sub-region of Margaret River. It’s a flat, warm site with fertile, red sandy soils.
The grapes were hand harvested on 3rd April. After chilling, the fruit was whole bunch-pressed directly to old oak for fermentation. The juice was fractionated into free-run and pressings but ultimately all of the fractions were used in the final blend. Fermentation was wild and no additions were made to this wine at all. After 10 weeks in oak un-sulphured on gross lees, the wine was emptied from barrel, settled, filtered, sulphured and bottled.
We are extremely happy with the resulting wine. The texture and phenolic structure are highlights in what is a very fine and subtle rosé which continues to push the boundary of high-end rosé production. That said, drink it on a boat wearing white…. It’s a pale salmon dream. – Julian Langworthy, Nocturne

December, 2017

Mike Bennie

The Wine Front

94 points

Savoury rosé of fine bones and good structure. Clear elevation above the pack, light, succulent tannins, a lick of saline mineral charm, just ripe red berry/cherry fruit character, barely-there game meat character. It’s all happening here. Packs plenty into the slight and dry frame. The finish rolls on and on and on with gentle, dry fruit and spice character, with a lick of burned orange and amaro. This is great stuff.

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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.