Wine Reviews
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Moss Wood Ribbon Vale 2019 Merlot – WAGFG Wine of the Year Award 2022
Dark choc, smooth and berried, lush and soft. Mellow and flowing style with some grippy malt elements. Well balanced, cool and fresh style with good energy. Mellow. An excellent expression that made the top 50 and close for the top 25. September 2022
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Moss Wood Ribbon Vale 2021 Elsa – WAGFG Wine of the Year Award 2022
Nutty, resinous, round and full on style. Lavish nougat and curry leaf woody spice characters, ripe citrus and apple underlying. Intense flavours, a bit creamy then pulls up quite quickly on chewy wood and zingy acidity. Feels not quite in control at present. Cellar now – will be better for…
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Moss Wood Ribbon Vale 2021 Elsa – Mike Bennie, WBM Australia’s Wine Business Magazine
An outstanding new release that celebrates Margaret River’s best assets. Fine boned, fresh, tightly wound and yet showing nuance of its wood seasoning, savoury elements underlying and coursing acidity, this is an ambitious release that nails its mark with its complexity and sense of seriousness. Cellar-worthy too. October 2022
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Moss Wood 2016 Cabernet Sauvignon – Gary Walsh, The Wine Front
A bit toasty and charred, some mint, dark berry fruit, chalky tannin, feels kind of rugged and slightly warm, acidity solid but not so settled. Good wine, perhaps not a great one. June 2020
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Moss Wood Ribbon Vale 2019 Elsa – Gary Walsh, The Wine Front
Gooseberry, quince, blackcurrant buds, ginger and cinnamon, mint, a bit of smokiness too. It’s mid-weight, glossy but saline and flinty, lemon zest and a whole lot of exotic spice, toasty oak and pink grapefruit, smooth and fleshy on a long nutty and clove spiced finish. Complex, worked, but very good…
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Moss Wood Ribbon Vale 2017 Merlot – Gary Walsh, The Wine Front
Savoury style featuring black olive, seaweed and cedar in with mixed berries and liquorice. Medium-bodied, brine and plum, some grainy earthy tannin, some tang and orange peel, and a decent finish. Feels like it will be better with a few more years on it. March 2021
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Moss Wood Ribbon Vale 2017 Cabernet Sauvignon – Gary Walsh, The Wine Front
Ripe strawberry and redcurrant, mint, rose oil and cedar oak. Medium-bodied, quite sappy and tangy, but has energy in that way, some leather/olive savoury stuff, and a woody flavour on a finish of solid length. Feels like a wine that wants to soften and turn into a ‘claret’ style of…
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Moss Wood 2018 Cabernet Sauvignon – Gary Walsh, The Wine Front
Red and black berries, violets, dried mint, but also a fair amount of savoury stuff, such as leather, resin and toasty wood, almost a liquorice sort of richness too. Full-bodied, dense and chewy, fresh acidity, saline and seaweed characters, feels a bit gummy with it, and the finish is packed…
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Moss Wood 2020 Chardonnay – Gary Walsh, The Wine Front
Rich style, grilled peach, honey and butter, cashews and cedar oak, a suggestion of aniseed? It’s glossy and viscous, but has a firm bite of lime acidity and flavour, toast and butter, a fine chalk dust texture, and a powerful savoury oatmeal finish. It’s certainly opulent in style, but keeps…
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Moss Wood 2021 Semillon – Gary Walsh, The Wine Front
Green apple, ripe lemon and pear, floral too, maybe some citrus leaf and hay. It’s intense, packed with flavour, lemon sherbet and lime, something a little riper like nectarine, juicy acidity, fine dusty texture, and a slightly warm, but concentrated finish of excellent length. Like this. Should age very nicely…
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Moss Wood 2019 Pinot Noir – Gary Walsh, The Wine Front
Ripe strawberry, cedar, mushroom, lemon zest and spice. Medium-bodied, ripe strawberry and earthy things, with some tang and vigour, a little red fruit and honey, but also has something of an orange peel/amaro twist. Finish is all red fruits and orange rind, and some quiet perfume. Length is pretty good.…
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Moss Wood 2021 Chardonnay – Gary Walsh, The Wine Front
You’re rarely left wondering what you’re drinking when you have a Moss Wood Chardonnay. Peach and lime, honeysuckle, ginger snap oak, and Jersey Caramel. Plenty of flavour, all peach tea and lime, with a spicy cashew creaminess, ripe and fruity, kind of glossy, but tight in citrus acidity. Offers some…
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Moss Wood 2020 Pinot Noir – Angus Hughson, Wine Pilot
An impressive Pinot despite being one of the few Margaret River producers that persevere with the variety. There is an intense core of fruit ranging from red currant, and black currant through to dried herbs and forest floor which are well integrated with a generous serve of French oak. The…
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Moss Wood 2022 Semillon – Angus Hughson, Wine Pilot
The 2022 vintage was on the warm side for Margaret River which has given this Moss Wood Semillon more upfront drinkability than usual. There is underlying power and richness of flavour while retaining good focus with aromas of melon and kiwi fruit plus touches of lanolin over a core of…
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Moss Wood 2021 Chardonnay – Fergal Gleeson, Greatwineblog
What a way to start the weekend! A scintillating Chardonnay from Moss Wood. A long, cool growing season gave Moss Wood some great fruit to work with.And one of Margaret River’s most respected wineries know what to do with it….Moss Wood 2021 Chardonnay is beautifully balanced with nectarine and pink…
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Moss Wood 2022 Semillon – Fergal Gleeson, Greatwineblog
Wine should always be joyful!Moss Wood Semillon 2022 is definitely a golden child ! A warm growing season in Margaret River following the wet year of 2021 meant the vines were primed to deliver.This is a Semillon that marches to the border of Sauvignon Blanc style tropical flavour and generosity…
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Moss Wood 2020 Pinot Noir – Fergal Gleeson, Greatwineblog
High end Pinot Noir is a unicorn in Margaret River.However Moss Wood‘s founders the Pannells were Burgundy buffs and planted Pinot Noir vines way back in 1973.This wine has a loyal following amongst Moss Wood drinkers and holds its own against Pinot from Tasmania and Victoria.Hail storms in Spring led…
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Moss Wood 2019 Pinot Noir – Tyson Stelzer, Wine Business Magazine
Pale in colour and disposition. Spicy, tangy, ripe red berry fruits and menthol. Impressive brightness and liveliness at three years of age. Lovely fine, mineral tannin profile. Compellingly elegant. Outstanding line and length. Unashamedly cool. Enticing. 14.0% June 2022
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Moss Wood Ribbon Vale 2021 Elsa – Bob Campbell, The Real Review
This is the third vintage of Elsa Moss Wood are now picking the grapes later to introduce more passion fruit and guava complexity. The wine was fermented and matured in 228 litre French oak barrels (10% new). A barrel-fermented sauvignon blanc with gooseberry and green capsicum flavours together with riper…
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Moss Wood 2020 Amy’s – Ray Jordan, The West Australian Wine Guide 2022
A blend of cabernet sauvignon, malbec, merlot, and petit verdot. Just gorgeous from the start through to its exceptionally refined and long palate finish. Strikes such a good balance between fruit and oak with a red fruit dominance supported with a chalky mouth feel.
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