Wine Reviews
Moss Wood Ribbon Vale 2012 Semillon Sauvignon Blanc – Graeme Phillips – Sunday Tasmanian, Hobart
“Margaret River has made this blend virtually their own and this crisp, citrusy and wonderfully refreshing drop is up there with the best of them. Again, chill well”
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Moss Wood 2009 Cabernet Sauvignon – Nick Stock, “Good Wine Guide 2013” goodfood.com.au
All guns blazing with the blockbuster 2009 vintage. This has a sense of thorough ripeness and is dripping with promise – still very young. Plenty of cedary oak, rich, dark and brambly berry fruit aromas, dark chocolate and rich plum essence here, graphite too. The palate is full of plump,…
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Moss Wood 2011 Semillon – Nick Stock, “Good Wine Guide 2013” goodfood.com.au
This is a semillon that aims for the complex and ageworthy style and does a darn good job of it. The nose has grilled hazelnuts, nougat and lemon pith, some gently toasty notes, yellow flowers and grassy hints – decidedly savoury. The palate is layered with marzipan and green melon,…
Read ReviewMoss Wood Ribbon Vale 2012 Semillon Sauvignon Blanc – Mike Bennie – The Wine Front
Lime and grassiness. Bright, fresh, lively. Some snow pea in the bouquet and a touch of that greenery in the palate, but benign. Certainly a bracing, linear, crisp style. Great length, rapier-like through the palate and with a touch of pepperiness to finish. Pep, perkiness, pretty. Good to drink, easy…
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Moss Wood 2011 Chardonnay – Ralph Kyte-Powell, The Age
More traditional than some of Margaret River’s current chardonnays, this opens with toffee, melon, citrus and nutty barrel-fermented aromas of richness and substance. It tastes full and ripe with a smooth middle and a long dry finish.
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Moss Wood 2010 Chardonnay – Jeff Collerson
Modern chardonnays were standouts at the recent Sydney Wine Show and this is prime example from Margaret River. Extended lees ageing and smal French oak ermentation has afforded intensity and richness. A complex palate shows honey and minerals.
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Moss Wood 2009 Pinot Noir – Gary Walsh, The Wine Front
Being something of a champion of Pinot Noir grown in places it probably should not be grown, this took my fancy straight away. Cherry, cedary oak, a little perfume showing but largely it feels unevolved and closed in. Medium bodied with good flavour, balanced acidity and gentle powdery tannin –…
Read ReviewMoss Wood 2011 Chardonnay – Subiaco Post
A brilliantly focused wine with citrus blossom and grapefruit along with lightly roasted cashew L and a shaking – of spice, harnessed together in a long, tight package. A few carefulty cellared years will see it break free of its shackles and show a wealth of complexity and great drinking…
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Moss Wood 2009 Cabernet Sauvignon – James Halliday, The Wine Companion
Rating: 95 Drink by: 2029 Date tasted: 7/5/2012 Alcohol:14.5% Positive red-purple colour; in the mainstream of Moss Wood style: supple, round and impeccably balanced, yet with regal cabernet expression. Small wonder that Moss Wood has one of the most loyal mail/email lists in Australia, and this release will please its…
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Moss Wood 2010 Chardonnay – James Halliday – The Wine Companion
Full yellow-green; the rich and complex bouquet presages an intense, complex palate with strong barrel ferment inputs to the white peach, melon, fig and cashew flavours; a tight strand of acidity stops any possibility of the palate wandering off on a frolic of its own. 95 Points
Read ReviewMoss Wood 2009 Cabernet Sauvignon – Matthew Jukes
2009 Moss Wood Cabernet is a phenomenal creation, gaining a nose-bleedingly high score in my notes. With an opaque, inky colour and a deep brooding nose this wine is fashioned in a Pauillac-esque style but with, dare I say it, more alluring fruit! Strangely, Moss Wood Cabernet can be drunk…
Read ReviewMoss Wood 2009 Cabernet Sauvignon – Ch’ng Poh Tiong
Toasty/soky/cedary and blackberries on the nose. The palat shows up the same profile, and with firmness of structure from tannins derived from French oak. Medium-plus bodied. Best with food, including roast pork, duck and lamb dishes.
Read ReviewMoss Wood 2009 Cabernet Sauvignon – James Halliday, The Wine Companion
Positive red-purple colour; in the mainstream of Moss Wood style: supple, round and impeccably balanced, yet with regal cabernet expression. Small wonder that Moss Wood has one of the most loyal mail/email lists in Australia, and this release will please its followers as much as any prior year.
Read ReviewMoss Wood 2009 Cabernet Sauvignon – Jane Faulkner -The Saturday Age, Melbourne
What To Drink … With Charcuterie, Cabernet Sauvignon needs some bottle age for it to truly reveal itself and this Moss Wood is no different, even if the tannins are velvety in such a youthful wine. While it easily has another 15 years ahead of it, today its rich, ripe…
Read ReviewMoss Wood 2009 Cabernet Sauvignon – John Lewis – Newcastle Herald
“I’VE been a long-time fan of Keith and Clare Mugford’s Margaret River reds and selected the Moss Wood 2007 Moss Wood Vineyard Cabernet Sauvignon as my 2010 cabernet sauvignon of the year. This one is in the same multi-faceted, sophisticated mode, with purple-tinged brick red colours and mulberry and bouquet…
Read ReviewMoss Wood 2009 Cabernet Sauvignon – Ray Jordan
An outstanding example of the Moss Wood style that will rank among its best releases. Brilliant, deep colour with a seductive aroma of redcurrant and violets with deeper mulberry nuances liberally spiced. The palate is dark and dense but with typical Moss Wood softness and generosity. Ripe tannins and rich…
Read ReviewMoss Wood 2009 Cabernet Sauvignon – Neil Sommerfelt MW
Another utterly superb Moss Wood Cabernet Sauvignon. This year’s blend includes 8% Petit Verdot and 4% Cabernet Franc. Keith truly is a master of his craft. Still firmly in its infancy this fantastically impressive offering combines power with extreme finesse and sheer beauty. The sublime use of quality oak lends…
Read ReviewMoss Wood 2010 Chardonnay – Bjorn Anthony
Moss Wood have cleverly combined a very good vintage, the Royalty of white grapes and the Margaret River GI to produce this light, medium yellow tinted Chardonnay. Delightful intense nose of pear, nougat and cashew coupled with a concentrated palate of the same plus grapefruit and hints of barley sugar.…
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Moss Wood 2009 Chardonnay – James Halliday – The Wine Companion
Bright green-gold; a generous, complex and layered wine, with ripe stone fruit and melon woven with creamy cashew notes; the acidity is in a different line underneath the fruit, and providing balance.
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Moss Wood 2007 Cabernet Sauvignon – Matthew Jukes – Expertwine newsletter
100 Best Australian Wines 2007 With considerable weight and yet piercing clarity of message, this wine brings your taste buds to attention and then marshals its dark berry and chocolate flavours around with balletic precision. With a decade ahead of it Moss Wood Cabernet is in no hurry to show…
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