Reviews
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
Read MoreMoss 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
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
Read MoreMoss 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
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Moss Wood 2021 Cabernet Sauvignon – Bob Campbell, The Real Review
Elegant red that is a benchmark for the variety with red rose petal, cassis, blackberry, cedar wood, cacao nibs flavours and a backbone of spicy French oak that adds extra complexity. Accessible but it’s almost a shame to drink it before 2030.
May, 2024
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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
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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
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Moss Wood 2021 Cabernet Sauvignon – Fergal Gleeson, Great Wine Blog
April, 2024
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Moss Wood 2021 Cabernet Sauvignon – Marc Malouf, Wine Worth Writing About
April, 2024
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Moss Wood 2021 Cabernet Sauvignon – Ray Jordan, Ray Jordan Wine
April, 2024
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