2023 Nocturne ‘Single Vineyard’ Cabernet Sauvignon

95 points Jane Faulkner, Halliday Wine Companion
No complaints about the flavour profile of blackberry essence and cassis, cedary oak spices and toasted nori, black olive tapenade and menthol. It’s fuller bodied with a ping of lively acidity, and the tannins are lovely – ripe yet with a cocoa-powder texture. Understandably there’ll be a desire to open this now, but it will garner more complexity with age.

95 points Gary Walsh, The Wine Front
A very good vintage in MR for cabernet, generally. The label design still gives me pause. Cherry, cassis, dried cranberry, biscuit spice and cocoa, and it’s also way less minty/mentholly than some of the other releases, though there’s still a faint signature of vineyard there. It’s dark fruited, but also has some earthy tobacco and black olive flavours, with something of a ferrous/ironstone grip to tannin, balanced acidity, and a finish of excellent length. This is a very strong release. It feels like it all came together.