Wine Reviews
Moss Wood 2018 Pinot Noir – David Prestipino, WA Today
WA dances with wine’s most maligned (and magical) variety Western Australia’s curious and creative winemakers have long strived to show our hand at mastering new grape varieties foreign to our shores, with worthy success. Spicy, bright, ripe-driven reds such as Tempranillo (Spain) and Zinfandel (California) and minerally, fruit-driven whites like…
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Moss Wood 2019 Amy’s – Bob Campbell, The Real Review
A blend of cabernet sauvignon, merlot, malbec and petit verdot. Deliciously intense red with juicy cassis, plum, blueberry flavours smothering spicy oak characters. Very approachable now but will become even more complex and interesting with bottle age. Published April 2021
Read ReviewMoss Wood 2019 Amy’s – Huon Hooke, The Real Review
Deep purple/red colour, bright and vibrant, the aromas likewise vibrant and fresh with attractive blue and red fruits and a high-note of violets. Plenty of detail. The wine is elegant but full-bodied in the mouth, with very good concentration of bright fruit and dried herb flavours, backed up by firm,…
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Moss Wood 2018 Cabernet Sauvignon – Cameron Douglas, camerondouglas.com
Intensely scented, complex, varietal and pure fruited bouquet. Aromas and flavours of black currants and black berries, whispers of violet, hay and baked bell pepper, fresh tobacco, bacon and plum. Tense, highly textured and dry with firm tannins, acidity and warming alcohol laying the foundation for this wine to age.…
Read ReviewMoss Wood 2018 Pinot Noir – John Lewis, Newcastle Herald
VIVACIOUS PINOT NOIR With 14% alcohol and bright ruby hues, the Moss Wood 2018 Pinot Noir has vibrant raspberry front palate flavour and middle-palate pomegranate, quince jelly, mint and savoury oak. Dusty tannins show at the finish.
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Moss Wood Ribbon Vale 2019 Elsa – John Lewis, Newcastle Herald
BRING ON THE SQUID The MossWood 2019 RibbonVale Sauvignon Blanc Semillon is lime green-tinged straw and has lychee and herb scents and gooseberry front-palate flavour. Passionfruit, guava, gunmetal and sherbet show on the middle palate and slatey acid refreshes at the finish. The Wilyabrup sub-region RibbonVale vineyard was bought by…
Read ReviewMoss Wood 2018 Cabernet Sauvignon – John Lewis, Newcastle Herald
A SIX-STAR CABERNET This scrumptious Moss Wood 2018 Cabernet Sauvignon glows deep purple in the glass and brings forth berry pastille and forest floor scents, plush blackcurrant flavour on the front-palate and middle palate mulberry, Morello cherry, peppermint chocolate and vanillin oak. Spearminty tannins play at the finish. Blue…
Read ReviewMoss Wood 2018 Cabernet Sauvignon – Ray Jordan, The West Australian
BEST JUST GOT BETTER This is getting just ridiculous. From the time the heavyweights of WA wine started to reveal their wines from the 2018 vintage, it has been a cavalcade of one great wine after another. . . . Now, I have another problem, albeit it a good one.…
Read ReviewMoss Wood 2018 Cabernet Sauvignon – Sam Kim, Wine Orbit
Can a cabernet be any finer, better structured and more engaging? This gloriously composed wine shows crème de cassis, spicy oak, subtle cigar, game and rich floral aromas on the nose, leading to an immensely concentrated palate offering exceptional depth and drive. Offering waves of refined texture and delicious flavours,…
Read ReviewMoss Wood 2018 Cabernet Sauvignon – Edward Agg, Wine Searcher
Moss Wood Cabernet Sauvignon 2018. A wine of profound greatness in the form of absolute completeness. The nose erupts with a core of deep cassis and black liquorice, blueberry and violet highs beautifully balanced by deep savoury notes of bay, dried black olive, peppermint, and leather. The palate’s all…
Read ReviewMoss Wood 2018 Cabernet Sauvignon – Mike Frost, Frost on the Vine
Classic tale: An Australian legend The latest vintage of this top-flight Margaret River red is one of their best. A blend of cabernet sauvignon, petit verdot and cabernet franc, it shows lovely concentrated blackcurrant and mulberry fruit on the nose and long, complex palate with a touch of violets and…
Read ReviewMoss Wood 2018 Cabernet Sauvignon – Ken Gargett, Wine Pilot
The first boutique winery in Australia was Lake’s Folly in the Hunter Valley. Naturally, its wines quickly became ‘must-have’s’ for those few early wine-obsessed drinkers, who helped drive the transformation in the industry from ‘fortified dominant’ and ‘big producers only’ to what we enjoy today. There were others. Stuart Anderson’s…
Read ReviewMoss Wood 2018 Cabernet Sauvignon – Fergal Gleeson, The Great Wine Blog
Moss Wood make some of Australia’s greatest Cabernet. For context, Moss Wood Cabernet is one of just 5 Cabernet or Cabernet blends on Langtons fine wine ‘Exceptional’ list which is based on price and demand at auction. The others are Penfolds Bin 707, Wynns Coonawarra John Riddoch, Cullen wines Diana…
Read ReviewMoss Wood 2018 Cabernet Sauvignon – Marc Malouf, Wine Worth Writing About
Sometimes, a wine delivers something so great that it redefines your own definition of the word great itself. This is one of those times. A beautiful purple ruby with a touch of blue and a powerfully perfumed nose that floods the room. Proud aromas of violets, black fruits, blueberry and…
Read ReviewMoss Wood 2018 Cabernet Sauvignon – Angus Hughson, Wine Pilot
Moss Wood have punted for 92% Cabernet Sauvignon, 4% Petit Verdot and 4% Cabernet Franc in this Margaret River icon from the 2018 vintage, which the Mugfords claim as one of the best years ever. It is a big call, and there are plenty of winemakers around the country that…
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Moss Wood 2020 Semillon – Ray Jordan, The Weekend West Australian
This remains one of my favourite wines in Margaret River. Mugford makes this in stainless steel so what you get is pure unadulterated semillon with the richness and intensity that says Margaret River. It’s always good to very good. In this year of intense ripe fruit, it is outstanding and…
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Moss Wood Ribbon Vale Cabernet Sauvignon 2018 – Ray Jordan, The Weekend West Australian
Such a beautifully balanced cabernet. The key to this vineyard has always been tannin management. This is spot-on. Sure, there are tannins, but you want that with cabernet, right? There’s a minerally, slightly ironstone character threading through it with leafy blackcurrant and, slightly, back olive nuances. Dry savoury finish with…
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Moss Wood Ribbon Vale 2018 Merlot – Ray Jordan, The Weekend West Australian
Ray Jordan talks about Moss Wood Ribbon Vale 2018 Merlot in the West Australian: “Master of Merlot Moss Wood’s Keith Mugford is a tough taskmaster. In fact, he is usually toughest on himself and the wines made under his watch. Talk about doing the one-percenters — Mugford does the 0.001…
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Moss Wood Ribbon Vale 2018 Cabernet Sauvignon – John Lewis, Newcastle Herald
With 14.5% alcohol, bright purple hues and potpourri scents, the MossWood 2018 RibbonVale Cabernet Sauvignon is from the 6.36-hectare vineyard south of the original MossWood site and bought by the Mugfords in 2000. It shows racy blackberry front-palate flavour, middle-palate plum, spice, mint and mocha oak and a dusty tannin…
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Moss Wood 2020 Semillon – John Lewis, Newcastle Herald
A grape to love The Moss Wood 2020 Wilyabrup Semillon is from a grape the Mugfords love for “growing like a weed and making vibrant wines that cellar for decades”. This 2020 has 14.5% alcohol, pale straw hues, kiwifruit aromas and zingy ruby grapefruit front-palate flavour. The middle shows apple,…
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