"The 2023 Single Vineyard Cabernet Sauvignon comes from the Sheoak vineyard and leads with all the purity, precision and balance that we have come to expect from the glorious 2023 season. You get cassis, raspberry pip, dried herbs, sheets of nori, iodine and leather. The wine is potently intense; the fruit penetrates the palate and stains it with flavor. The wine is still opening up; it's so young as to be inchoate and with a long, bright future ahead. It has a glittery, purple, shimmering sort of vibrancy to it, as if lit by its own inner light. Margaret River is at its greatest when wines are like this, with concentrated flavor, weight without heaviness, resolved ductile tannins and purity of fruit.
Unstoppable." - Erin Larkin, Wine Advocate
"The 2023 vintage; it is a thing…… as is this wine. In seasons when you can wait, and pause, and asses the grapes for perfect tannin ripeness is when you know you have something special going on. Not too hot, not too cold, it was the ‘Goldilocks’ season where everything was just right. In this instance from what I see as the best part of the Sheoak vineyard slope, we have made an effortless wine with the finest of tannin structures.
Darkly coloured though wonderfully fine and ethereal from the outset. Instantly perfumed and richly coloured. The Sheoak vineyard makes expressive, medium-bodied, silky structured wines. This for me is the perfect incarnation: Dark fruit flavours and high notes of cassis and warm spice frame this fine and completely poised vintage of the Nocturne SV. While it’s amazingly accessible on release, this wine would love 5 to 8 years further maturation, which will really make this amazing wine shine.." - Winemaker Julian Langworthy
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