Wine Reviews
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…
Read ReviewMoss 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…
Read ReviewMoss 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…
Read ReviewMoss Wood 2021 Cabernet Sauvignon – Gary Walsh, The Wine Front
Not an easy year in Margaret for Cabernet, was 2021. But we look at what’s in the glass, and comment on that. 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…
Read ReviewMoss Wood Ribbon Vale Elsa 2023 – 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…
Read ReviewMoss Wood Ribbon Vale Chardonnay 2023 – Gary Walsh, The Wine Front
Ribbon Vale is such a nice name for a vineyard. I feel it’s kind of a Game of Thrones sort of name. Anyway, don’t mind me. 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,…
Read ReviewMoss Wood Ribbon Vale Chardonnay 2023 – 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.…
Read ReviewMoss Wood Ribbon Vale Elsa 2023 – 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…
Read ReviewMoss 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…
Read ReviewMoss 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
Read ReviewMoss 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…
Read ReviewMoss 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…
Read ReviewMoss 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…
Read ReviewMoss Wood Ribbon Vale 2018 Botrytis Semillon – Ray Jordan, Ray Jordan Wine
A style of wine you seldom see in WA, let alone in Margaret River. It’s a sweet dessert style wine but it has been made in a way that controls the palate, so it remains deep and sweet yet never becomes cloying. Retains a fresh zingy acidity. Distinctive aromas of…
Read ReviewMoss Wood 2021 Amy’s – Ray Jordan, Ray Jordan Wine
If you’re looking at an entry point into the wonderful wines of Moss Wood then this classy wine is just perfect. It’s a blend of cabernet sauvignon, merlot, malbec and petit verdot. Firm dark fruit delivered with typical grace and style. Has a beautiful lift and vibrance which carries effortlessly…
Read ReviewMoss Wood 2023 Semillon – Ray Jordan, Ray Jordan Wine
Remains one of my favourite Moss Wood wines, and certainly one of my favourite semillons. And this one from the great ’23 vintage is right up there with anything. It seems a more pungent and intense semillon than previous years and probably a result of the vintage which produced such…
Read ReviewMoss Wood Ribbon Vale 2021 Merlot – Ray Jordan, Ray Jordan Wine
When Australia’s finest merlots are discussed this one must be in the mix. Recent vintages have been stunning, and I have to say this one, which combines the concentrated intensity of the small 2020 vintage with such supreme elegance, is as good as any released and that includes the 2018.…
Read ReviewMoss Wood Ribbon Vale 2021 Cabernet Sauvignon – Ray Jordan, Ray Jordan Wine
Another stunner from the 2020 vintage. This vintage shows slightly more sweet fruit than some previously, yet the firm tannin core remains a structural feature that is part vineyard and part season. Plenty of dark fruits woven with a trace of black olives, bay leaf and oyster shell minerality. So…
Read ReviewMoss Wood 2020 Cabernet Sauvignon – Ray Jordan, Ray Jordan Wine
Another simply sublime edition of this great wine. The volume of fruit was down almost 60% but the small berry influence has added even more intensity and depth, if that is possible with this wine. Interesting point of difference is that the combination is slightly different from previous vintages with…
Read ReviewMoss Wood 2021 Pinot Noir – Ray Jordan, Ray Jordan Wine
This cooler vintage was ideal for pinot from this part of Margaret River. Perfumed and highly scented aromas of strawberry and sour cherry with a slightly truffly influence. The velvety palate captures that iron fist in a velvet varietal character. Smooth and seamless with a gossamer like sheen. Beautiful. November,…
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