Wine Reviews
Moss Wood Ribbon Vale 2018 Botrytis Semillon – James Suckling, jamessuckling.com
Impressive, lemon and peach aromas with marmalade and bergamot as well. The palate has elegant, fresh oranges and peaches. Published April 2020
Read ReviewMoss Wood Ribbon Vale 2018 Botrytis Semillon – Bob Campbell, The Real Review
Delicious, creamy, botrytised semillon with bush honey, dried apricot, liquorice, musk and caramel. Quite Sauternes-like – sweet but certainly not cloying. Perfect with foie gras. Published 4 April 2020
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Moss Wood Ribbon Vale 2011 Botrytis Semillon – James Halliday, The Wine Companion
Gleaming gold; only made in years when botrytis occurs; very rich and sweet; needed a bit more acidity. 375ml. Published 27 July 2014
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Moss Wood 2017 Cabernet Sauvignon – Cameron Douglas, camdouglasms.com
Complex, varietal and classic bouquet with aromas of blackberry, plum, violet, tobacco and toasty French oak. On the palate – a full-bodied and full-flavoured wine with plums and cherries, blackberry, earth, sand, salt and toasty wood. The floral note of violets add a lovely complexity. Medium+ tannins and medium+-ish acidity,…
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Moss Wood Ribbon Vale 2017 Cabernet Sauvignon – James Halliday, Wine Companion
Has the nervous energy of its ’18 sibling [Moss Wood 2018 Cabernet Sauvignon], but the herbal, forest floor characters show the door to the fruit. Bordeaux lovers may enjoy this wine.
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Moss Wood 2019 Semillon – James Halliday, Wine Companion
Pressed, the juice transferred to stainless steel tanks and settled for 48 hours, then racked and seeded with multiple yeast cultures and fermented at 18 degrees C, bottled as soon as possible in Jul. Smooth as silk with a velvet trim. It has multiple layers of fruit, and can silence…
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Moss Wood Ribbon Vale 2017 Merlot – James Halliday, Wine Companion
Full of nervous energy, its plummy fruit on one side and earthy, herbal acidity and freshness on the other. This will be ready when you are. Published August 1st, 2020
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Moss Wood 2018 Amy’s – James Halliday, Wine Companion
Moss Wood’s Bordeaux blend of cabernet sauvignon, merlot, malbec and petit verdot. Deep but bright crimson-purple foretells what is to come: a rich yet refined medium-bodied wine, oak and tannins present but not the least obvious. Published August 1st, 2020
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Moss Wood 2016 Cabernet Sauvignon – Janne Putkonen, Viinikartta
Australian Moss Wood Cabernet Sauvignon is probably the strongest cab I’ve ever tasted. It tasted like fortified wine so much that it reminded me of port wine. Well, by paying 76 €, I expected to get full-bodied wine, but this… double concentrated meditation wine. One of the finest. Worth every…
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Moss Wood 2018 Chardonnay – Julia Harding, Jancis Robinson
Peachy aroma that stands out from the lemon/lime of many Western Australian Chardonnays. Creamy and gentle but with excellent persistence and a depth of fresh citrus at the core. Will certainly gain in complexity. Published 29 Apr 2020 17+
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Moss Wood 2016 Cabernet Sauvignon – Julia Harding MW, Jancis Robinson
Mid cherry red. Pure fruited with cassis and damson. Chewy tannins all tangled up with the sweet dark fruit on the palate. Rounded and generous but still so fresh. Some fruit-pastille sweetness on the finish but overall it is elegant and refined. Lightish but persistent. Very young still. Published April…
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Moss Wood 2017 Amy’s – Tamlyn Currin, Jancis Robinson
Ripe, succulent nose that crackles with green pepper and green-peppercorn spice. Cab Sav dominates in an intensely blackcurranty and blackcurrant-bud way. Juicy and fragrant and very much of the bordeaux mould but with the sensuous sunlit roundness of New World – in a good way! Supple tannins. Generous without sacrificing…
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Moss Wood 2018 Chardonnay – James Halliday, The Wine Companion
Bright, light straw-green; rich and layered stone fruit (white and yellow peach), fig and balanced by citrussy acidity. Oak handling is of a higher order – as befits the wine.
Read ReviewMoss Wood 2016 Cabernet Sauvignon – James Halliday, The Wine Companion
Includes 5% petit verdot and 4% cabernet franc, hand-picked, destemmed, open-fermented, 14 days on skins, matured in French barriques (18% new). A luscious, plush cabernet, its voluptuous palate trimmed by dry herbs and foresty notes. A great vintage maximised by the thoughtful vinification. Award Winning Varietal, Cabernet Sauvignon – 2021…
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Moss Wood 2018 Amy’s – Ray Jordan, “Top 100 Reds” The West Australian
This is a blend of cabemet sauvignon merlot malbec and petit verdot from the Glenmore Vineyard just north of Yallingup. This a cracker and as good as any under this label. Seamless tannin, and oak integration with some exceptional powerful yet refined fruit.
Read ReviewMoss Wood 2018 Amy’s – Nick Stock, JamesSuckling.com
An attractively fresh array of mulberry and red-plum aromas with a rose-like floral edge, too. The palate has a very supple, succulent core of fleshy, sleek tannins that carry bright raspberry and mulberry flavors fresh and long. Great balance and vibrancy here. A blend of cabernet sauvignon, merlot, malbec and…
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Moss Wood 2017 Amy’s – Christina Pickard, The Wine Enthusiast
This crimson-hued, Cabernet Sauvignon-dominated Bordeaux blend is an excellent and affordable intro to the wines of one of Margaret River’s founding wineries. It’s sappy and mineral, with brambly berries laced with herbs and graphite; charred meat and vanilla make an appearance, too. In the mouth, there’s a lovely juxtaposition between…
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Moss Wood 2017 Cabernet Sauvignon – Ray Jordan, The West Australian
The 2017 vintage was one of the milder vintages in WA. The latest Moss Wood captures this vintage perfectly and is without doubt one of the more restrained and tightly framed Moss Woods of recent years. Not the opulence of 2014 or the firm power of the 2016. Yet it…
Read ReviewMoss Wood 2017 Cabernet Sauvignon – “Western Australia’s greatest vintage ever?” Nick Stock, JamesSuckling.com
Very attractive aromas of blue fruit, as well as red cherries and redcurrants with cedary, savory nuances, stones, flowers and woody spices. This is both pristine and full of interest. The palate has elegant style with a fine brand of elegant, long tannin and fresh red-berry flavo(u)rs. Up there with…
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Moss Wood Ribbon Vale 2019 Elsa – Bob Campbell, The Real Review
Weighty, textural wine with lemon zest, crushed herb, ginger and a hint of freshly-baked baguette crust supported by lively acidity. Sauvignon dominates the aromatics while semillon expresses itself through the wine’s waxy texture.
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