Wine Reviews
Moss Wood 2017 Chardonnay – Gary Walsh, The Wine Front
Golden and rich. It’s full of peach, apple and lime, with plenty of spicy sawn wood and vanilla. Full-bodied, and full of flavour, powerful and quite oaky, but with the fruit to mop it up. Almond and butter gloss cut with firm grapefruity acidity, and a long dry finish that…
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Moss Wood Ribbon Vale 2016 Merlot – Huon Hooke, huonhooke.com
Medium to full red colour with the faintest trace of purple. The bouquet is quite minty, with eucalyptus as well as raspberry overtones, the palate fruity and medium-bodied, soft and rounded, easy to enjoy. It’s pleasantly flavoured and structured. There’s abundant fruit on the palate, which is both bright and…
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Moss Wood Ribbon Vale 2018 Sauvignon Blanc Semillon – Huon Hooke, huonhooke.com
Light straw-yellow colour, with a hint of nougat on the nose, as well as vanilla and nutty suggestions of barrel age. There is richness and texture, intensity and drive, with good extract and satisfying weight, as well as subtle varietal definition. It has a satisfying, juicy finish and a clean,…
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Moss Wood 2018 Semillon – Huon Hooke, huonhooke.com
Light straw-yellow colour, with a straw and lemongrass aroma, the palate taut and tight, restrained and young but quite intense with a clean, properly dry, refreshing finish. The palate is intense, concentrated and youthful and not too straightforward. It could be more rewarding in a few more months. The fruit…
Read ReviewMoss Wood 2017 Chardonnay – James Halliday, Top 100 Whites 2018, The Wine Companion
It only takes a millisecond to know you are in the presence of vinous royalty. This is a truly beautiful chardonnay, seamless perfection from the first sip. You know there has to be quality oak somewhere in the wine, and know that all the analytical numbers will be a Bo…
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Moss Wood 2015 Cabernet Sauvignon – James Halliday Wine Companion, Top 100 Wines 2018
The bouquet shows the first signs of development via nuances of spice and earth. The palate is still bracing and fresh, cassis and redcurrant on the same page. These different personas are simply an intermediate stage before the wine moves on to a lingering plateau measured in decades not years.…
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Moss Wood Ribbon Vale 2016 Merlot – James Halliday, Top 100 Whites 2018, The Wine Companion
Vibrant crimson-purple; if you are searching for a merlot that has bell-clear varietal character and is a joy to drink, go no further: this is it. It is sheer perfection, its red fruits dripping from a trellis line of fine tannins and controlled French oak. The best Australian merlot I’ve…
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Moss Wood 2017 Semillon – Thebuyer.net, Roger Jones
Fresh ripe nose, citrus aromas, soft delicate acacia honey. Lots of limes, lychees and sweet ripe figs on the palate, full flavour, carried by the fresh acidity, recognised as a great vintage. Published November 22nd, 2018 Source
Read ReviewMoss Wood 2014 Semillon – Thebuyer.net, Roger Jones
Vibrant, flinty and exciting, quite lively with a lovely freshness, textured, pink grapefruit, honey, layered with underlying freshness. Published November 22, 2018 Source
Read ReviewMoss Wood 2007 Semillon – Thebuyer.net, Roger Jones
Nutty, guava, slightly more tropical, evolved well and drinking nicely, this was perfectly matched to a Sea Bream Carpaccio later with lunch. The freshness of the fish lifted the wine to another level and showcased how good these Semillons are with vibrant seafood dishes. Published November 22, 2018 Source
Read ReviewMoss Wood 1993 Semillon – Thebuyer.net, Roger Jones
Great evolvement on the colour, quite a deep intense aroma, layers of complex flavours, still has a brightness that carries the deeper flavours, this was under cork, would have been interesting to try it under stelvin. Published November 22, 2018 Source
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Moss Wood 1993 Chardonnay – Thebuyer.net, Roger Jones
Well it may not be everyone’s style, but my word what an experience, this was intense in flavour and colour, the golden hue shining out of the glass, the aromas of ripe slightly bruised Provence stone fruit glowing on the palate, there was a freshness of acidity that brought a…
Read ReviewMoss Wood 2015 Cabernet Sauvignon – Thebuyer.net, Roger Jones
The 2015 (…) is a marvel, a light toasty cedar wood nose, blackberry and cherry announce themselves with aplomb, then there is an expensive, silky, complex wine that is fighting to come out. This will age for decades – a stunning wine. Published November 22, 2018 Source
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Moss Wood 1999 Cabernet Sauvignon – Thebuyer.net, Roger Jones
The 1999, under stelvin, was a beautiful seamless wine with great freshness, cherry aromas on the nose, bilberries, redcurrants and cedar wood, balanced with that freshness, with a touch of silky chocolate on the finish. Published November 22, 2018 Source
Read ReviewMoss Wood 2017 Chardonnay – Bob Campbell, The Real Review
A weighty, flavoursome chardonnay firmly-structured and with good acidity. Peach, grapefruit, struck flint, mineral and spicy oak flavours, with a toasty and nutty lees influence. . . . Published November 19th, 2018
Read ReviewMoss Wood 2017 Chardonnay – Fergal Gleeson, The Great Wine Blog
Moss Wood planted their first Chardonnay vines in 1976, making them one of the variety’s earliest adopters in Australia. They reckon that the 2017 is one of their best. It would appear that the punters agree, as despite just being released they’ve already sold out at the winery. The 2017…
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Moss Wood 2016 Pinot Noir – Fergal Gleeson, The Great Wine Blog
Moss Wood Pinot Noir 2016 has just been released and it is very good indeed. It’s medium to full bodied with depth to the strawberry and cherry flavours and finishes brightly. There’s also a hint of tangy sourness and earthy complexity. Moss Wood released their first Pinot in 1977 long…
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Moss Wood Ribbon Vale 2010 Merlot – James Halliday, The Wine Companion
Medium purple-red; there is no question this has totally authentic varietal character, with cassis tempered by black olive flavours, the result taking you to the Right Bank of Bordeaux; the tannins, too, are serious, and will underwrite the future development. Published 10 July 2013
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Moss Wood Ribbon Vale 2009 Merlot – James Halliday, The Wine Companion
Light, clear crimson-purple; a fragrant and fresh merlot, with attractive red berry fruits on both bouquet and palate, French oak adding its influence, but respectfully so; the tannins are fine, ripe and in balance. True merlot varietal character on display. Published 17 July 2012
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Moss Wood 2005 Cabernet Sauvignon – Huon Hooke, huonhooke.com
A big, rich, deeply flavoursome red, which is fully ripe and shows none of the leafy herbal notes of cabernet – but then, that is typical Moss Wood. It is full-bodied, dense and rich, with abundant supple tannins and marvellous balance. We tasted a screw-capped bottle alongside a cork-sealed bottle…
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