Reviews
Moss Wood 2021 Cabernet Sauvignon – Gary Walsh, The Wine Front
Shows some cedar oak, honeyed red fruit, menthol, green tobacco. It’s medium-bodied, quite assertive in acidity, but the tannin gathers up a bit and offers some slightly grainy grip, though the body here is perhaps not equal to the bones. Minty red fruits, new leather, again that sweet honey gloss to red and blue fruit, with a finish of good length. One of those wines that will likely make old bones, and become svelte and succulent…
Rated : 92+ Points
Tasted : Apr24
Alcohol : 14%
Price : $174
Closure : Screwcap
Drink : 2027 – 2036+
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Moss Wood Ribbon Vale 2023 Elsa – Gary Walsh, The Wine Front
The cold never bothered me anyway.
Here’s an interesting wine, and a different expression of Sauvignon compared with your usual Margaret River styles. It’s all lime and lemon curd, honey and florals, fennel fronds, and gingersnap biscuits. It’s soft and creamy, a suggestion of butterscotch pudding and banana, but with balanced limey acidity, fine chalk dust texture, and a juicy and flavoursome finish of cool composure and fine length. Really like this. A mellifluous expression of Sauvignon and so nicely done.
April, 2024
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Moss Wood Ribbon Vale 2023 Chardonnay – Gary Walsh, The Wine Front
An opulent and slick expression of Chardonnay, and I do admire a wine that doesn’t stint on flavour. Here we have white mint chocolate, lemon pudding, cedar and spice, peach, cashew and green banana. It’s viscous and rich, but has a fine cut of acidity, melon, peach and toasty savoury oak, the texture is firm and chalky, and the finish is long, with a hazelnut skin grip to close, and some marzipan richness. I reckon this will build and settle with a few more years in bottle, and be better again. Excellent wine.
April, 2024
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Moss Wood Ribbon Vale 2023 Chardonnay – Ray Jordan, Ray Jordan Wine
Score: 95/100 Cellar: 8 years
April, 2024
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Moss Wood Ribbon Vale 2023 Elsa – Ray Jordan, Ray Jordan Wine
Score: 96/100 Cellar: 7 years
April, 2024
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Moss Wood 2023 Semillon – Stuart Knox, The Real Review
Bright lime and lemon colours shine through the glass. Grapefruit, melon and chopped green herb aromatics. The palate has a tension and drive that instantly draws you in. Citrus fruit and hints of leafy greens add complexity whilst that driving acidity ensures it carries very long and crisp to the end. As it lingers, a saline note appears, hastening you back for repeat visits.
February, 2024
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Moss Wood Ribbon Vale 2021 Cabernet Sauvignon – Huon Hooke, The Real Review
Medium-deep red-purple with a briary, tomato-bush and angelica bouquet, the palate medium-full bodied and lively, intense, fine and focused, with bright and attractive cabernet cassis/raspberry fruit backed by fine, persuasive yet supple tannins. Fine, elegant cabernet, worth cellar space.
February, 2024
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Moss Wood Ribbon Vale 2021 Merlot – Huon Hooke, The Real Review
Deep-ish red-purple colour, bright and fresh; the bouquet is briary, peaty, cedar and savoury forest-floor complexities overlying dark-berry/cassis/mulberry fruit, the palate elegant and intense with lovely depth of flavour and fine, caressing tannins that run the full length of the palate. Lovely wine indeed, and a triumph for a straight merlot.
February, 2024
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Moss Wood 2023 Semillon – Fergal Gleeson, Great Wine Blog
The Moss Wood 2023 Semillon leads with lemon and Granny Smith flavours. Dig a little deeper for fig and nectarine. It’s a riper and fuller bodied expression than Hunter releases. Still has that underlying chalk, dryness and acid line to keep everything tidy. Always highly pointed by wine critics but remains one of the dark horses in the Moss Wood range.
December, 2023
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Moss Wood 2021 Pinot Noir – Fergal Gleeson, Great Wine Blog
Beautiful aromatics of black and red fruits on the nose. they follow through on tasting along with cola and some fine, earthy tannins. It’s a clean and polished Pinot with great balance and acidity courtesy of a cooler vintage. Not many have followed Moss Wood’s lead on making a premium Pinot in Margaret River but this wine has consistently delivered. The’21 is particularly tasty with a little extra nuance and intensity.
December, 2023
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