Noon Winery Reserve Cabernet Sauvignon 2019

Grapes for the Noon Reserve Cabernet have been sourced from the Borrett family vineyards in Langhorne Creek since the first Reserve Cabernet in 1996.

We love making and drinking Cabernet, the international benchmark for red wines. The Fruit Trees and Main Road blocks are on deep alluvial soil, with enough clay to retain good moisture and in a site cool enough to ensure slow ripening and high flavour development in the grapes. Noon Reserve Cabernet is a riper style than many, displaying blackberry fruit with full body and is complex and well structured for cellaring.

For further information on individual vintages and how they are currently drinking please click on the “Tasting Notes” tab.

Note that there was no 2001, 2008, 2010, 2011, 2013 or 2017 Reserve Cabernet produced due to seasonal conditions.

Food matching suggestions

Lamb and Cabernet is a proven and classic match. Roast leg or rack of lamb with lots of rosemary and garlic and roasted vegetables is an ideal accompaniment to our Reserve Cabernet, especially the older vintages. In fact just about anything roasted is lovely…….a small roast chicken wrapped in pancetta or stuffed with herbs under the skin would be perfect. A good roast vegetable frittata also works very well. It is worth decanting this wine half an hour prior to serving as aeration will help express the aromas and flavours.

Varietal composition

100% Cabernet Sauvignon from the Fruit Trees and Main Road blocks in Langhorne Creek, South Australia.

Winemaking

It’s a great time in the winery for us when the Cabernet comes in! Harvesting this late-ripening variety means the vintage is drawing to a close and the distinctive and powerful aroma of the Cabernet in ferment always brings a smile. Fortunately we are also physically fit by then and strong enough to handle the thick cap of skins which Cabernet produces. Constant hand plunging throughout the fermentation is used to assist with colour and tannin extraction. After the end of ferment, the wine is pressed using our manual basket presses.

Maturation takes place in French oak barriques (225l barrels) for 18 months. Approximately 35% new barrels are used.

The wine is crushed, fermented, matured and bottled on the property.

Average Production

500 – 700 dozen. Older vineyards reflect the seasons more clearly and production can vary significantly, especially in years affected by drought.

The Vineyard

The Fruit Trees Cabernet vineyard was planted on deep alluvial clay loam soils on the Bremer River flood plain at Langhorne Creek by our friends the Borrett family in 1972. The Main Road block is about 500 metres away, on an even more clay dominant soil, planted in 1999. When we began making wine from these vines it was love at first sight (smell and taste) and each vintage we are still delighted when we receive the Cabernet fruit.

Yields are 1 to 3 tons/acre (with significant vintage variation in the size of the crop). The vines always produce small, flavoursome berries with a blue-black appearance and healthy bloom; they are beautiful looking grapes.

Noon Winery är ett litet familjeägt företag som främst specialiserar sig på fylliga röda från McLaren Vale och Langhorne Creek. Dess Reserve Shiraz har uppnått mycket höga betyg från Robert Parker Wine Advocate.


Noon Winery producerar inga vita viner även om de gör en torr rosé. Drew Noon är en av de enda 24 personerna i Australien som blev en Master of Wine - vilket han åtog sig för att lära sig mer om världens viner och vinframställning. Noon älskar det han gör: han njuter av den personliga ansträngningen, tillsammans med familjens och vännernas, i varje skede av produktionsprocessen. Ökad produktion är inte ett mål för att säkerställa en kontinuerlig kvalitet. Noon är en liten tillverkare med 5,7 hektar egendomsvingård (1972).

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"Drew and wife Raegan Noon returned to McLaren Vale and purchased Noon's from Drew's parents in 1996. Drew had previously spent many years as a consultant oenologist and viticulturist in Vic, and thereafter a time as winemaker at Cassegrain. His rich red wines have a loyal following, and are eagerly snapped up by customers on the mailing list." 

James Halliday