Wine Reviews
Moss Wood 2013 Semillon – International Wine Cellar July/August 2014 – Best New Wines From Australia – Josh Raynolds
Light yellow. Yellow plum, pear skin and floral honey aromas show a waxy character that’s reminiscent of chenin blanc. Sappy and precise, offering intense orchard and citrus fruit flavours and a suave floral aspect. The taut, spicy finish boasts excellent clarity and mineral-driven persistence.
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Moss Wood 2010 Pinot Noir – International Wine Cellar July/August 2014 – Best New Wines From Australia – Josh Raynolds
Brilliant ruby red. Assertive aromas of raspberry and cherry preserves complicated by succulent herbs and fresh rose. Supple and appealingly sweet with soft red berry preserve flavours turning firmer with air and picking up a floral pastille nuance. Finishes with very good breadth and clarity and silky, fully absorbed tannins.
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Moss Wood 2012 Chardonnay – International Wine Cellar July/August 2014 – Best New Wines From Australia – Josh Raynolds
Light yellow. Lemon zest, poached pear and honeysuckle on the intensely perfumed nose. Juicy citrus, pit and orchard fruit flavours are firmed by dusty minerality, which adds refreshing lift and incise cut. Dry, stony and pure, showing a suave blend of power and vivacity and excellent finishing clarity.
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Moss Wood 2011 Cabernet Sauvignon – International Wine Cellar July/August 2014 – Best New Wines From Australia – Josh Raynolds
Inky ruby. Sexy dark berry and candied cherry scents are given depth by suave oak spice, vanilla and fruitcake nuances. Sweet cassis and blackberry flavours show excellent clarity, along with suggestions of anise and mocha. Gains sweetness with air, taking on floral pastille and vanilla qualities that carry through a long, clinging, lightly…
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Moss Wood Ribbon Vale 2013 Sauvignon Blanc Semillon – Philip White – Indaily Adelaide Independant News
These blondes will leave you breathless – Whitey picks three extreme blondes in the wild south-west. Now we’re talkin’. This wine bears no resemblance at all to Hunter Valley Semillon or Niewzillun Savvy-b. The dark methoxypyrazine/tomato-leaf acridity of the Sauvignon is so mellow here that it seems simply to add…
Read ReviewMoss Wood Ribbon Vale 2013 Sauvignon Blanc Semillon – Ray Jordan – West Weekend Magazine
Blue Ribbon This is only just savvy dominant. The fruit is initially treated in stainless steel before about 40 percent of the blend goes into French oak. The result is a stunning lift in complexity and mouthfeel. This is a superb wine showing the benefits of older vines, some winemaking…
Read ReviewMoss Wood Ribbon Vale 2013 Sauvignon Blanc Semillon – Cameron Douglas, Master Sommelier – camerondouglasms.blogspot.co.nz
A generous and forward bouquet of sweet and ripe Sauvignon Blanc then gently waxy Semillon – ripe, fresh and baked peaches, pear and apple aromas, medium complexity and quite inviting. On the palate – dry, crisp and firm with youthful acidity followed with the flavors of sweet apple and peach…
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Moss Wood Ribbon Vale 2011 Merlot – James Halliday – The Wine Companion Magazine
It’s a cliche to comment that Margaret River does better with merlot than any other Australian region: here cassis and black olive are woven through the medium-bodied palate, ripe tannins and oak present in precisely the right amounts. Drink to 2031.
Read ReviewMoss Wood Ribbon Vale 2011 Merlot – Ray Jordan – West Weekend Magazine
Blue Ribbon Ribbon Vale has finally emerged from the shadows of its illustrious parent the Merlot is one of the best from an Australian producer. There is an engaging character about this merlot, from the initial meeting on the nose through to the extended complexity on the palate. Generous and…
Read ReviewMoss Wood Ribbon Vale 2011 Merlot – Cameron Douglas, Master Sommelier – camerondouglasms.blogspot.co.nz
A very attractive bouquet of dark red fruits centering on Doris plum then blackberry fruits – all wrapped up in a blanket of toasty oak – but not too much; medium complexity; there is also a dense dark rose layer which adds complexity and a feminine charm; On the palate…
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Moss Wood Ribbon Vale 2011 Cabernet Merlot – Cameron Douglas, Master Sommelier – camerondouglasms.blogspot.co.nz
Quite the classic bouquet of a Bordeaux blend with its New World twist – generous and masculine bouquet of fresh and poached black and red fruits with a strong reminder of oak – toasted wood, brown spices and baked vanilla; medium plus complexity and quite forward. On the palate -…
Read ReviewMoss Wood Ribbon Vale 2011 Cabernet Merlot – Ray Jordan – West Weekend Magazine
Blue Ribbon Ribbon Vale has finally emerged from the shadows of its illustrious parent the Merlot is one of the best from an Australian producer. A soft and supple blended red from this rather ripe vintage that serves the two varieties so well. Bouquet of tobacco and leather with a…
Read ReviewMoss Wood Ribbon Vale 2011 Cabernet Merlot – James Halliday – The Wine Companion Magazine
Right in the heartland of Margaret River cabernet merlot style, with multiple layers of blackcurrant, redcurrant, black olive and briar characters, the texture and structure based in large part on the tannins. Drink to 2026.
Read ReviewMoss Wood 2010 Pinot Noir – James Halliday, The Wine Companion
Ironically, Moss Wood’s Margaret River Pinot Noir has recovered some of its past glory in the face of its Mornington Peninsula sibling; this really does have correct varietal fruit expression, even if it is on the generous, ripe fruit end of the spectrum; the tannin and oak management cannot be…
Read ReviewMoss Wood 2013 Semillon – James Halliday, The Wine Companion
Margaret River Semillon has a more welcoming nature than Hunter Valley Semillon when young, invoking thoughts of standing at a breakfast buffet in a top Asian hotel laden with guava, passionfruit, pineapple (sweeter than any domestic version) and custard apple. It’s all a trick of course, but you will enjoy…
Read ReviewMoss Wood 2013 Semillon – Cameron Douglas, camerondouglasms.blogspot.co.nz
Lots of peaches and citrus aromas especially sweet peach and baked lemon with a touch of grapefruit, then a drift of hay and mild grassy notes – so there is a measure of complexity here. On the palate – dry, crisp, lively and punchy – there is plenty of citrus…
Read ReviewMoss Wood Semillon 2013 – Philip White, Indaily Adelaide Independant News
Whitey picks three extreme blondes in the wild south-west – These blondes will leave you breathless 13.5% alcohol; screw cap; 94+++ points Who needs Sauvignon blanc when you can get Semillons like this? More Martina Navratilova on the beach than Breathless Mahoney in the copshop (just check those forearms), this…
Read ReviewMoss Wood 2012 Chardonnay – Cameron Douglas Master Sommelier, camerondouglasms.blogspot.co.nz
Quite a powerful yet familiar bouquet of Chardonnay – attractive, round, rich and complex; with baked stone fruits, raw brown sugar, popcorn and butterscotch suggestions, plenty of oak vanillin as well. On the palate – dry with lots of nutty, creamyness and flavor – baked stone fruits again, spicy oak…
Read ReviewMoss Wood 2012 Chardonnay – James Halliday – The Wine Companion Magazine August/September 2014
Wow Factor Whites : Light straw-green; Chardonnay is one of Moss Wood’s great wines, close behind its Cabernet Sauvignon; there is a masterly interplay between the stone fruit and citrus on the one hand, gently nutty French oak on the other. 13.5% alc.
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Moss Wood 2011 Cabernet Sauvignon – Lyndey Milan’s Baking Secret TV Show’s Blog
Moss Wood 2011 Cabernet Sauvignon seems a riper vintage than 2010, something I prefer in Margaret River cabernets in general. This one is packed full of red and dark berry aromas with some lovely spice. This translates on the palate with long, supple flavours again with red and black currant.…
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