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Region: Margaret River
Grapes: Chardonnay
First Glance: Flinty, Textural, Salty, Stone-fruit
Acclaim: 97pts
The Wine:
2023: It’s a thing, and so is this wine! The best Nocturne SV Chardonnay to date, thinks Julian Langworthy (winemaker extraordinaire). For a wine to have such massive complexity and intensity, but in a way that’s so harmonious where you don’t even realise it’s an assault to the senses: that’s when you know you have something special on your hands.
The fruit is from a single site in Willyabrup, from a tiny ridge section in the middle of the vineyard planted to the WA gingin clone. It’s a wine of unbelievable natural acid presence and structural drive. The vineyard is planted on deep silver-grey sands. Handpicked on the 20th of February, whole-bunch pressed directly to oak puncheons (new, one year old, and two year old). Fermented naturally then held unsulphured on gross lees in barrel till October of that year.
It’s an amazing wine that needs time to truly unfurl. Amazing acid, al dente tannin, flinty funk, just ripe stone-fruit and bright citrus.
The Review:
Erin Larkin, Robert Parker Wine Advocate - 97pts
"The 2023 Single Vineyard Chardonnay leads with elegantly managed reduction, showing curry leaf and brine, white flowers, flint and salted nuts, beeswax, sea spray, and fresh-pressed linen. This is a pleasure to smell and even better to taste. Ductile, resolved phenolics provide shape on the palate, while the toasty oak sits neatly folded into the fruit. What a wine. Yes. The best release under this label yet."
