Wine Reviews
Moss Wood Ribbon Vale 2021 Elsa – Gary Walsh, The Wine Front
Guava, green banana, gooseberry, a little aniseed and green capsicum, cinnamon and vanilla custard oak. Smooth, vanilla cream and tropical fruit, a little passionfruit and grapefruit tang, gentle chalk dust texture, good zip of limey acid, and a creamy spicy finish of good length. Needs a little time to settle…
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Moss Wood 2020 Chardonnay – Andrew Caillard, WinePilot.com-The Vintage Journal
Pale colour. Classic nectarine, grapefruit, marzipan waxy aromas with hints of vanilla and butterscotch. Generous, creamy and minerally with fresh grapefruit, nectarine fruits, fine supple textures and underlying grilled nuts, marzipan, vanilla notes. Finishes chalky and minerally. A very buoyant style with ample fruit, lovely richness of flavour and superb…
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Moss Wood 2021 Semillon – Andrew Caillard, Winepilot.com-The Vintage Journal
Pale medium colour. Lovely intense tropical fruit, guava, lemon curd aromas. Concentrated tropical fruit, lemon curd, grapefruit flavours, fine slinky textures, lovely mid palate viscosity and fresh indelible acidity. Finishes crisp with fennel/ aniseed notes. Ripe, generous and minerally; the complete alter ego to Hunter Valley Semillon. Drink now but…
Read ReviewMoss Wood Ribbon Vale 2021 Elsa – Aaron Brasher, The Real Review
Young, bright and youthful in the glass. Complex aromas of grilled nuts, white stone fruit, cut grass and a leafy lift. The palate has a firm, creamy oak drive, plenty of nectarine and guava and pointed acidity that presents cut and drive. Plenty going on here, layered and sophisticated Published…
Read ReviewMoss Wood Ribbon Vale 2021 Elsa – Cameron Douglas, camdouglasms.com
Aromas of ripe almost sweet goosberry and lemon, there’s a distinctive mineral quality suggesting sand and salt, sea air and clay. A layer of wood spice and lees scents layer in complexity and breadth. On the palate – excellent with a coarse-silk texture then contrasting acidity and a core of…
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Moss Wood Ribbon Vale 2021 Chardonnay – Cameron Douglas, www.camdouglasms.com
An alluring bouquet of silky textured yellow and white fleshed fruits, raw cashew nut, fine lees complexity, baked apple and a mineral core suggesting sea-shells and salty air. Youthful and complex, alluring and familiar. On the palate – fantastic; flavours of citrus and stone fruit then nut and baked fruits,…
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Moss Wood 2019 Cabernet Sauvignon – Cameron Douglas, www.camdouglasms.com
A distinctive and enticing bouquet of dark red berries and vanilla, baked plum and clove, gun flint and violet, dark rose and fresh tobacco. Complex and youthful, vibrant and fruity. Lovely weight and mouthfeel with a core of dark red fruit flavours then almost immediately a tautness from tannins, acidity…
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Moss Wood Ribbon Vale 2019 Cabernet Sauvignon – Erin Larkin, WINECOMPANION.COM.AU
The 2018 Ribbon Vale Cabernet Sauvignon almost had me falling off my chair it was so good. This is no different. Like the ’18, it is silky, sumptuous and very fine: red fruited, floral, spicy and shaped by fine, chalky tannins. It is a superstar, and at $72, a bargain…
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Moss Wood Ribbon Vale 2019 Merlot – Erin Larkin, Winecompanion.com.au
This is supple and lithe; layers of raspberry and cocoa, licorice and clove. In the mouth there is saltbush and bay leaf, and it’s beautiful. The structure is fine, it doesn’t have that slippery, formless shape that can so afflict merlot from Margaret River. Nay – this is Château Lafleur-like…
Read ReviewMoss Wood 2021 Semillon – Erin Larkin, Winecompanion.com.au
Powerful, dense and almost muscular, this cool-vintage iteration of semillon shows a tight core of apple and lime fruit, wrapped in layers of lemongrass, wisps of jalapeño, coriander root and apple skins. The top notes stray onto the exotic-spice spectrum, with fresh nutmeg, saffron and even za’atar. All this to…
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Moss Wood 2019 Chardonnay – Erin Larkin, Winecompanion.com.au
The 2019 vintage was a cool one in Margaret River, and the best wines exhibit a cool restraint and delicacy that works alongside the natural latent power of the grape. In this instance, the opulent, luxurious style of chardonnay that Moss Wood is known for, is somewhat tempered by the…
Read ReviewMoss Wood Ribbon Vale 2021 Elsa – Angus Hughson, Wine Pilot
Bright mid straw in colour, this wine is getting better and better as the Mugford’s hone in on what makes the Ribbon Vale site tick for this variety. I must admit an unusually soft spot for classy oak handled sauvignon blanc and this is an excellent example. It opens with…
Read ReviewMoss Wood 2019 Cabernet Sauvignon – Angus Hughson, Wine Pilot
Bright deep crimson in colour and highly complex clearly showing the cooler vintage thanks to a cedary, leafy lift, with red and blackcurrant fruits sitting just behind. Great poise and elegance on the palate with bright, radiant fruits, certainly more mid weight in style than usual fleshed out by violet…
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Moss Wood 2021 Semillon – Angus Hughson, Wine Pilot
Great to see Moss Wood sticking with Semillon after all these years. And that perseverance pays off with wines which are always interesting and food friendly styles. This is a big wine from 2021 that weighs in at 14.5% alcohol but still has the acid balance which should see it…
Read ReviewMoss Wood Ribbon Vale 2021 Elsa – Winsor Dobbin, WD Wine of the Week
I can hear the back row from here: “$75 for a sauvignon blanc? Are you out of your mind?” The thing is that this is no ordinary sauvignon blanc; in a way it is akin to the great white wines of Bordeaux and is certainly one of the finest examples…
Read ReviewMoss Wood Ribbon Vale 2021 Chardonnay – Sam Kim, Wine Orbit
Gorgeously styled and enticing, the bouquet shows ripe peach, fig, lemon peel, nougat and roasted hazelnut aromas, leading to a wonderfully weighted palate offering seductive complexity and expansive mouthfeel. Sophisticated and irresistibly appealing with seamless flow and a prolonged complex finish. April 2022.
Read ReviewMoss Wood Ribbon Vale 2021 Elsa – Sam Kim, Wine Orbit
A splendid rendition of sauvignon blanc offering varietal vibrancy as well as elegant complexity, showing white flesh nectarine, green rockmelon, grapefruit and rich floral aromas on the nose with nuances of cashew and oatmeal. The wonderfully flavoursome palate delivers terrific fruit power backed by textured mouthfeel and bright acidity,…
Read ReviewMoss Wood 2019 Cabernet Sauvignon – Sam Kim, Wine Orbit
Gracefully powerful and exquisitely expressed, the wine shows blackcurrant, dark cherry, cedary oak, green olive and warm spice aromas on the nose. The concentrated palate delivers outstanding fruit purity and intensity, combined with finely textured mouthfeel and beautifully pitched grainy tannins, finishing with a great line and length. Impeccably detailed,…
Read ReviewMoss Wood 2019 Cabernet Sauvignon – Bob Campbell, The Real Review
Fine-boned, linear cabernet sauvignon with dark berry, violet, dark chocolate, cedar, new leather and spicy oak flavours. It’s a perfectly-balanced wine with obvious cellaring potential. A complex wine with underlying power.
Read ReviewMoss Wood 2019 Cabernet Sauvignon – Marc Malouf, Wine Worth Writing About
Deep ruby with a purple hue and a tightly packed, but very expressive nose of rose buds, dark berries, raspberry leather, raspberry leaf, plum jam, dried bayleaf, fern and pencil shavings. High quality, yet restrained oak shows the class of this beauty. In the mouth it’s a pretty expression of…
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