Moss Wood 2022 Chardonnay – Erin Larkin, The Wine Advocate

The 2022 Chardonnay leads with a nose redolent of white chocolate praline, roasted/salted/crushed cashews, orange oil, vanilla pod and wafer. In the mouth, the phenolics serve to almost balance the opulent fruit; this is a huge, pillowy wine of substance and volume. It tastes the way custard cooking on the stove smells, warming, soft and rich. The combination of a warm season, with the opulence of the Moss Wood Chardonnay style, has produced a wine of ample, capacious, billowing flavor. 

December, 2023

Rating: Stars
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Moss Wood 2020 Pinot Noir – Erin Larkin, The Wine Advocate

The 2020 Pinot Noir is concentrated and red fruited, with berries and garden mint. The mint character feels like a vineyard characteristic to me, as I see it so often in the wines, and it sits so well within the red fruit character of the wine, which includes red cherries, pomegranate, strawberry and Pink Lady apples, with clove and tobacco. 2020 was a warm, low-yielding season in Margaret River, and the quality of the wines has been excellent. 

March, 2024

Rating: Stars
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Moss Wood 2021 Pinot Noir – Erin Larkin, The Wine Advocate

The 2021 Pinot Noir leads with strawberry and garden mint on the nose, which pull through onto the palate. The wine is intense and concentrated, although light in the glass, and it shows a cavalcade of red fruits, briar, rose, cherry, pomegranate and pink peppercorns. This is a really lovely wine here. The garden mint/ clove/arnica character is woven through the finish and marks the impression. The Moss Wood Pinot Noir is an interesting beast; the wines have a great history of aging with grace. It is not uncommon for a wine from the 1980s to be rolled out in a blind tasting, and at 30 and 40 years of age, they are so often impressive. Long-time followers of Moss Wood accept this as an obvious truth. So, while you could revel in the cherries and berries of their youth, it is recommended that you be a little brave and seek out some older bottles. Cellar your own, and see how they go.

March,2024

Rating: Stars
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Moss Wood 2021 Cabernet Sauvignon – Paul Edwards, The West Australian

High expectations accompany iconic labels such as Moss Wood, especially following on from the powerful 2020. This elegantly styled 21 vintage steps up and delivers, even in its youth. This is a wine built for cellaring and, as such, it was day two when the full gamut of flavours and textures opened up, in all their magisterial glory. Think boysenberry, blueberry essence and blackberries with nuances of nori, black olive, cedar and oak toast. There’s boundless flavour intensity and a nervy freshness and silkiness to the mouthfeel. Quite the feat of engineering to craft something so substantial yet with such lightness of touch. Stunning.

May, 2024

 

98 Points

Rating: Stars
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Moss Wood 2021 Cabernet Sauvignon – Aaron Brasher, The Real Review

Deep garnet red in the glass, very youthful, inky and opaque. Lovely lifted aromas of cassis, bramble, dried herbs, pencil shavings and nutty oak, wonderfully complex and incredibly evocative. Powerful on the palate, lashings of blackcurrant, mulberry, blackberry and cedar. This  is quintessential Margaret River cabernet, not too heavy or angular, just the right amount of sinewy, shapely tannin working superbly with a very pure drive of fruit and delivering fabulous length. Destined for a long and glorious life.

May, 2024

 

97 Points

Rating: Stars
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Moss Wood Ribbon Vale 2023 Elsa – Marc Malouf, Wine Worth Writing About

Light straw with a cyan hue and a nose that will make any Savvy B lover grin with pleasure. Aromas of delicate white florals, complex and zesty sherbet-like citrus, orange blossom water, green apple, mangosteen, honeydew and sweet snow peas, spiced with gingerbread, nougat and vanilla-rich oak.

In the mouth it’s rich and juicy, yet tight and zesty with brilliant flavours that echo the nose, along with white peach, nectarine and creme brulee. Crisp acidity drives the fruit long and it seems to glide across the palate with glassy, frictionless ease. The balance between fruit, acid and toasty oak is wonderful. A deep mineral edge crescendos towards a reaching tail and lends a fine sizzle of tannin and a touch of austerity. It finishes dry and refreshing. I’m a sucker  for a good Savvy B, and this is just that. Complete, classy and oh-so smashable!

April, 2024

 

Rating: Stars
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Moss Wood 2021 Cabernet Sauvignon – Fergal Gleeson, Great Wine Blog

Form is temporary, class is permanent! True in the sportling world and also in wine.
Moss Wood Cabernet is one of the country’s greatest reds and highly trade-able at auctions (first vintage 1973). As a single vineyard wine, every vintage tells it’s own story but it’s always fascinating.
Moss Wood Cabernet 2021 has effusive red fruit notes on the nose. At one level it’s ‘Modern Cabernet’ with bright, fruit flavours but also classic with leather and cigar notes layering in complexity.
The resolved tannins are exceptional and make the wine very enjoyable at this stage though collectors know that 40 years is a very reasonable drinking window.
A predictably excellent release from the maestros.

April, 2024

 

Rating: 5 Stars
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Moss Wood 2021 Cabernet Sauvignon – Marc Malouf, Wine Worth Writing About

Deep ruby red with a purple hue and finely layered nose of riper red berries, blueberry, a hint of dried fig, bayleaf, lemon rind, cocoa, gentle sweet spice, marshmallow root and cedar. Calm and understated.
In the mouth it’s an elegant and linear expression with a focus on fruit purity and precision that comes with a cool vintage. Flavours of sweet and crunchy red berries, mulberry, plum, a hint of blackberry and moments of roasted fennel drive with good intensity and are backed by sweet spice and bright acidity. Supple tannins hold throughout the midpalate to a reaching tail ending with a good chew of tension and hums notes of cherry and red apple. It’s missing some depth and savoury complexity, but rest assured it’s a classy well made wine that makes up for it with its finesse and delicacy. You can hold on this one for decades to come.

April, 2024

 

Rating: Stars
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Moss Wood 2021 Cabernet Sauvignon – Ray Jordan, Ray Jordan Wine

One of Australia’s great cabernets. This from a cooler season highlights and accentuates the typical bright red fruits and blue fruit mix, especially on the nose. It’s aromatic and perfumed with an African violet scent. The palate as always is so exquisitely balanced and refined. Since 1989 the cabernet has been augmented with the floral bright fruit of cabernet franc and the darker robust black fruits of petit verdot. The palate delivers with a gentle restraint yet there is power deep within. The chalky tannins define a long and focussed finish. A deceptive medium bodied wine that will cellar for many years.

April, 2024

 

98 Points

Rating: Stars
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