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+

 

Rating: Stars
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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

 

94 Points

Rating: Stars
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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

 

94 Points

Rating: Stars
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Moss Wood Ribbon Vale 2023 Chardonnay – Ray Jordan, Ray Jordan Wine

A recent addition to the Moss Wood portfolio showing the great strides that have been taken in managing the Ribbon Vale vineyard. This is probably the best release yet. It was a superb season and its shows in a wine of elegance and refinement, yet with layered complexity and sophistication. Nice lemon scents yield to more lemon zest flavours with a chalky acidity sustaining the finish. Oak has been beautifully integrated. Mighty impressive wine.
Score: 95/100 Cellar: 8 years

April, 2024

 

95 Points

Rating: Stars
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Moss Wood Ribbon Vale 2023 Elsa – Ray Jordan, Ray Jordan Wine

This intriguing interpretation of a sauvignon blanc dominant wine was introduced just a few years ago. I have loved it from the start. Has about 10 per cent semillon in it, but it is the savvy which really dominates. There are the usual tropical, guava and slightly passionfruit lemony characters of sauvignon blanc but then other secondary characters of spices and ginger emerge. Gets a little oak treatment which contributes to its slightly steely linear frame. This is one of the best yet.
Score: 96/100 Cellar: 7 years

April, 2024

 

96 Points

Rating: Stars
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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

 

93 Points

Rating: Stars
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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

 

 

95 Points

Rating: Stars
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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

 

Rating: 4 Stars
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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

 

Rating: Stars
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