Moss Wood Ribbon Vale 2022 Elsa – Ray Jordan, Business News

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Sauvignon blanc that takes you into another zone. Full malolactic fermentation contributes to its rich generous creamy texture while the use of oak, with about 6% new, adds a defining lift through the palate. The nose offers all manner of things from melon, spices and pear with a varietal gooseberry note. On the palate you get into even more, with layers of honey and lemon curd quite dominant. It’s almost languid and effortless but gathers pace to a long finish.                                  
Cellar: 10 years

April, 2023

 

95 Points

Rating: Stars
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Moss Wood Ribbon Vale 2022 Chardonnay – Fergal Gleeson, Great Wine Blog

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Ribbon Vale Chardonnay 2022 is a rich and complex wine.
No skinny Chardonnay here or attempt to emulate saline Chablis. This is Wilyabrup, Margaret River.
A full bodied white showing rich honey notes, peach, melon, nuts. 50% new oak adds to the layers.
Despite the fruit power, it is balanced and all pulled into line by a crisp finish. Hedonistic and pure pleasure.

April, 2023

Rating: Stars
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Moss Wood Ribbon Vale 2022 Elsa – Fergal Gleeson, Great Wine Blog

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Many Australian winemakers have a vision for Sauvignon Blanc beyond making a $15 quaffer. Moss Wood are one of those!
Ribbon Vale Elsa 2022 is an elegant and sophisticated white wine.
It’s polished and balanced with flavours of lemon curd, honeysuckle and pear backed up with some richness because of fermentation and ageing in 6% new oak. It’s rounded rather than acidic and in keeping with Moss Wood tradition, it glides along with fruit generosity rather than edginess.
Has top shelf Chardonnay type class!

April, 2023

 

Rating: Stars
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Moss Wood 2020 Cabernet Sauvignon – Angus Hughson, Wine Pilot.com

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This 2020 Cabernet Sauvignon is an effortless vintage from Moss Wood, although slightly unusual with 7% Petit Verdot (higher than usual) and 3% Cabernet Franc (lower). It’s an old fashiooned claret style, reserved yet precise and focussed. It delivers blackcurrant, violets, red currant and old cedar aromas, French oak relaxed and assured with a mid-weight palate defined by its powerful core of impressive fruit. What I love most is the structure – very fine yet muscular tannins that are beautifully integrated and deliver a finish of extreme length. A classic in the making that is already drinking superbly, Petit Verdot structure adding additional tension that will see this star age extremely well.

April 2023

97 Points

Rating: Stars
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Moss Wood 2020 Cabernet Sauvignon – Andrew Caillard, Wine Pilot.com – The Vintage Journal

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Medium deep crimson. Beautiful blackcurrant, wax polish, hint panforte aromas with vanilla notes. Classical Margert River Cabernet with fresh blackcurrant, panforte flavours, fine grainy/ cedary tannins, underlying roasted chestnut oak notes and linear fresh acidity. Finishes firm and tight with a fine plume of tannin. This has lovely weight and balance with the perfect structure for aging. Drink 2026 – 2040+

April 2023

98 Points

Rating: Stars
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Moss Wood 2020 Cabernet Sauvignon – Ken Gargett, Wine Pilot

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… One of this country’s very best Cabs. Stellar stuff. This latest vintage will do nothing but enhance its reputation. The blend is 90% Cabernet, 3% Cab Franc and 7% Petit Verdot.  Inky dark maroon. The nose immediately suggests that this is a wine of finesse and class. We have plums, mulberries, blackcurrants, tobacco leaves, dry herbs and beef stock. Even at this young stage, we see signs of the complexity that will surely follow. A fragrant, balanced Cab of excellent focus, exceptional length and serious grip. The tannins are abundant, but fine. Easily approachable, even at this stage, it will age deceptively well, for at least 15 to 20 years. A cracking Marg River Cab.

April 2023

97 Points

Rating: Stars
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Moss Wood Ribbon Vale 2022 Chardonnay – Ken Gargett, Wine Pilot

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This vineyard ripens two weeks after the Moss Wood vineyard, despite their proximity (one kilometre between them). Whole bunch pressing, fermentation first in stainless steel and then transferred to barrel – 228-litre French oak. For this vintage, this wine saw 50% new oak. This is a higher percentage than usual, due to the intensity of the fruit from 2022.  An appealing deep lemony colour. This is a fine Chardonnay, good concentration of flavours, and offering finesse. Spices and lemon curd notes. Stonefruit and gentle oak. There is a gorgeous texture here, a little reminiscent of crème brulee in some ways. Seamless and seductive and supple. Fine balance, good acidity and decent length, this has everything in place for the next five to six years. Love it.

April, 2023

94 Points

Rating: Stars
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Moss Wood Ribbon Vale 2022 Elsa – Ken Gargett, Wine Pilot

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A Savvy that is a million miles from the typical, simple, flavour bombs so prevalent these days. And all the better for it. Complexity and texture are the keys here.

A gentle lemon hue. We have ripe tropical notes, which are quite exotic and exuberant. Dried apricots, figs, fresh peaches and spices. The merest whiff of vanillin oak with lemon butter on toast. There is complexity here, with balance, length and intensity. A flick of acidity running along that supple and seductive texture. Good focus. Expect this to age well over the next 6 to 8 years and become even more interesting. This might be Savvy, but not as you know it.

April, 2023

 

93 Points

Rating: Stars
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