Moss Wood Ribbon Vale 2021 Elsa – Fergal Gleeson, The Great Wine Blog

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Moss Wood Ribbon Vale 2021 Elsa – Fergal Gleeson, The Great Wine Blog

Rating: 5 Stars

 

This is the best Moss Wood Elsa Sauvignon Blanc yet!

Now on it’s in 3rd release Elsa Sauvignon Blanc has seen Moss Wood go on the journey of making a more complex, textural Sauv Blanc.

With the Elsa 2021 it feels like all the stars & have aligned.

The balance is perfect. You taste some of Sauvignon Blanc’s richness and fruit power but it’s tempered with saliva inducing dryness and crunchy texture from a cool and wet year.

It points to getting the decision ‘just right’ about when to pick.

Elsa is fermented and aged in 10% new French oak which adds breath to the palate but no overt vanilla or biscuit flavours. Like the fruit ripeness- just right.

One of Australia’s best Sauvignon Blancs. A wine to fall in love with and to admire!

5/5 stars.