Wine Reviews
Moss Wood 2019 Cabernet Sauvignon – Edward Agg, The Cellar Post
Very pretty and so very approachable. Very good drinking. Nose – Dark berries and blood plums, aromatic blood orange and raspberry with leather, bay leaf, and oak spice rounding out the fruit sweetness with ample savoury complexity. Very pretty for a Cabernet. Palate – Fine, elegant, polished, silky. Blood plum,…
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Moss Wood Ribbon Vale 2021 Elsa – Fergal Gleeson, The Great Wine Blog
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…
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Moss Wood Ribbon Vale 2021 Chardonnay – Fergal Gleeson, The Great Wine Blog
Here it is! The first ever release of Moss Wood Ribbon Vale Chardonnay. Interesting origin story – the high winds coming off the ocean have traditionally prevented the successful cultivation of Chardonnay in Moss Wood ‘s Ribbon Vale (RV) vineyard. 20 years ago the Mugford’s planted trees on the…
Read ReviewMoss Wood 2019 Cabernet Sauvignon – Fergal Gleeson, The Great Wine Blog
Cabernet is one of Australia’s greatest wines. If it doesn’t get your pulse racing- call your doctor! Moss Wood Cabernet is one of just 22 wines rated ‘Exceptional’ by Langtons Fine Wine based on demand, keeping company with Hill of Grace and Grange. It’s an Australian Grand Cru. As…
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Moss Wood 2021 Semillon – Gabrielle Poy, TheRealReview
This offers a heady mix of lemon curd, nutmeg and brioche… On the rich and ripe palate, a medley of fruits including pineapple and preserved lemon produces deep and intense flavours. Its core is warming indicating some alcohol, contributing to this gloriously intense wine. One for the hedonists! Posted on…
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Moss Wood 2020 Chardonnay – Huon Hooke, TheRealReview
Medium to full yellow colour, with an evolved and well-worked bouquet of dried apricot, straw, malt, peach nectar and smoky overtones. The wine is full-bodied and flavoursome, a little broad and evolved, but rescued by lively acidity. It’s not a finesse wine but amply flavoured and structured. Posted on TheRealReview,…
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Moss Wood Ribbon Vale 2020 Elsa – James Halliday, The Weekend Australian Magazine
A 90/10% blend of sauvignon blanc and semillon, barrel fermented and matured for 9 months in French barriques. The move away from the clear juice to slightly cloudy has moved this into big boy’s territory, full-bodied if you will, but none the worse for that. 14% alc, screw cap 95…
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Moss Wood Ribbon Vale 2019 Merlot – James Halliday, The Weekend Australian Magazine
A beguiling bouquet, its aroma glittering so rapidly it’s hard to keep up with them. Better to allow the wine to have its head and leave you to revel in the gloriously supple array of red and black fruits, the tannins translucent. 13.5% alc, screwcap 96 points, drink to 2043…
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Moss Wood Ribbon Vale 2019 Cabernet Sauvignon – James Halliday, The Weekend Australian Magazine
91% cabernet sauvignon, and 3% each of cabernet franc, merlot and malbec, 28 months in French barriques. The texture and structure are such that the drink-to dates have little meaning. Flavours of olive tapenade, crushed bay leaves and blackcurrant fruits, oak and tannin beholders rather than participants. 14% alc, screwcap…
Read ReviewMoss Wood Ribbon Vale 2019 Merlot – Gabrielle Poy, TheRealReview
A heady delight of smoked-meats, cigar-box spice and red plums leads into a suave and intense core. The tannins are fine and talcy, a standout feature that guides the flavours along. With air, the wine grows and flavours of rosehip and graphite appear on the fleshy core. This is very…
Read ReviewMoss Wood Ribbon Vale 2019 Cabernet Sauvignon-Gabrielle Poy, TheRealReview
This needs a swirl or two, it’s a little shy from the outset. Then suddenly a whirl of roses, black plums and subtle sweet baking spices emerge. The fruit is poised and wonderfully fresh and there’s a graceful air to the palate. It flows across the palate with some pleasing…
Read ReviewWine of the Week NZ-Moss Wood Ribbon Vale 2019 Cabernet Sauvignon-Bob Campbell TheRealReview
Hand-picked, destemmed and sorted before being put into open fermenters for hand-plunging three times a day. Spent 18 months in oak. Unfined with sterile filtration. Cabernet sauvignon with 3% each of cabernet franc, merlot and malbec. Cabernet sauvignon varietal character shines through with cassis, black berry, cedar with a touch…
Read ReviewMoss Wood 2021 Semillon – Fergal Gleeson, Greatwineblog
Moss Wood make a serious Semillon! While most in Margaret River blend with Sauvignon Blanc Moss Wood make and unoaked single varietal. There’s lemongrass and nectarine fruit finishing dry with a little chalk. It’s more like a Chablis than most Australian Chardonnay. I can’t write about Australian Semillon without referencing…
Read ReviewMoss Wood 2020 Chardonnay-Fergal Gleeson, Greatwineblog
Stars align for Moss Wood Chardonnay 2020, one of the Margaret River greatest vineyards delivering one of the region’s hero varieties in an excellent vintage. It also helps that winemaker Keith Mugford has been on the tools at Moss Wood since 1979 so he knows the terroir. There’s all kinds…
Read ReviewMoss Wood Ribbon Vale 2020 Elsa – Fergal Gleeson, Greatwineblog
Moss Wood have just released 2020 Elsa, a sophisticated Sauvignon Blanc. Moss Wood’s first release of Elsa was the 2019 with the aim of making more complex Sauv Blanc. Winemaking techniques support this through oak barrel fermentation and ageing and more use of solids to build flavours. 10% Semillon also…
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Moss Wood 2019 Pinot Noir – Fergal Gleeson, Greatwineblog
Moss Wood Pinot Noir frequently defies preconceptions of the potential of Pinot in Margaret River. Blind tasted it sits comfortably with high end Pinots from more noted Australian and New Zealand Pinot Noir regions. So it is with Moss Wood Pinot Noir 2019 which is pretty and bright with strawberry…
Read ReviewMoss Wood Ribbon Vale 2019 Merlot – Fergal Gleeson, Greatwineblog
Stop me if you’ve heard this one before…but Merlot makes some of the best wine in the world! Most Australian wine drinkers would be shocked that Merlot can make wine as powerful, long lived and complex as top notch Cabernet, Pinot Noir or Shiraz. Few Australian wine producers have tried…
Read ReviewMoss Wood Ribbon Vale 2019 Cabernet Sauvignon-Fergal Gleeson, Greatwineblog
Moss Wood are one of Australia’s masters of Cabernet Sauvignon so a Cab seems like the right wine to finish the reviews of their new releases. The Ribbon Vale 2018 Cabernet Sauvignon was their best yet. 2019 backs it up and delivers on expectations emphatically in this cool vintage edition.…
Read ReviewMoss Wood 2020 Chardonnay-Winsor Dobbin @WinsorDobbin, www.gourmetontheroad.com
If you like your chardonnays bold and outspoken then you’ve come to the right place. An Australian classic, this is a complex, rich, chardonnay that can either be enjoyed in its voluptuous youth or cellared with confidence. Aged on lees in French barriques, this has a panoply of flavours from…
Read ReviewMoss Wood Ribbon Vale 2020 Elsa – Ken Gargett, Wine Pilot
A wine like this is always a tough one to review. As ever, it must be done as objectively as possible on the undoubted merits of the wine and this is a wine that will have many supporters. That said, this is a love-it-or-hate-it wine – all these ‘worked’ Savvies…
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