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"The 2023 Single Vineyard Chardonnay is from the Forrest vineyard in central Wilyabrup, to the north of Margaret River town. The 2023 season that birthed it was magnificent—the best this century for whites; the premium reds are yet to be released. Mild temperatures, a long, dry growing season meant there was little to no pressure in the vineyard. The fruit was in brilliant condition, and the wines show this. The 2023 Single Vineyard Chardonnay leads with elegantly managed reduction, showing white flowers, flint and salted nuts, beeswax and sea spray. 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." - Erin Larkin, Wine Advocate
"2023 - it’s a thing and so is this wine. The best Nocturne SV Chardonnay to date …. Yes correct; I feel unequivocal on this.
For a wine to have massive complexity and intensity but do it in a way that’s so harmonious, it’s hard to sort of even realise it’s an assault to the senses - that’s when you know you have something special on your hands. The fruit is of course from a single site, the Forrest Vineyard in the Wilyabrup sub-region of Margaret River. Moreover, this wine is from a tiny ridge section from within the middle of this vineyard, selectively picked for this wine. Planted to the classic, WA Gin Gin clone, it’s a wine of unbelievable natural acid presence and structural drive.
This is an exciting site that holds amazing acid structure and lovely al dente tannin. It needs some time to truly unfurl, unfold, and show its true colours, but one sniff will show, that it has the character that Nocturne’s SV Chardys are famous for: Flint, funk, just ripe stone fruit, citrus and hope…. In hope that change is always to grow and to hopefully improve. Get around this wine, bright with flint, funk and grilled lime, it’s a bright new future out there." - Winemaker Julian Langworthy
