Wine Reviews
Moss Wood 2023 Semillon – Gary Walsh, The Wine Front
Gee, they’ve turned out an excellent Semillon in 2023. No oak employed here. Ripe green apple, quince, lime leaf, citrus blossom, a little spice and jalapeño. It’s flavoursome, but balanced, with a fine grip, green melon and citrus, arrowroot biscuits, and a bright and long finish offering lime zest and…
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Moss Wood 2021 Pinot Noir – Andrew Caillard, Wine Pilot.com – The Vintage Journal
Medium deep crimson. Very attractive strawberry pastille, red cherry, chinotto aromas and flavours, fine slinky textures, lovely mid palate viscosity and underlying roasted walnut notes. Finishes chalky and minerally with seductive sweet fruits. Early to medium term drinking wine. Drink now – 2027 September, 2023
Read ReviewMoss Wood 2023 Semillon – Andrew Caillard, Wine Pilot.com – The Vintage Journal
Pale colour. Lifted grassy, lemon curd hint marzipan aromas with hints of aniseed. Attractive lemon curd, tropical fruit marzipan flavours, fine chalky textures, impressive mid-palate volume and well balanced linear fresh acidity. Generous and richly flavoured wine with lovely fruit definition and impact. Delicious to drink now but should keep…
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Moss Wood 2022 Chardonnay – Andrew Caillard, Wine Pilot.com – The Vintage Journal
Medium pale colour. Beautiful grapefruit, melon aromas with marzipan vanilla notes. Generous and creamy with ripe yellow fruits, melon, white apricot flavours, fine supple textures, superb marzipan vanilla oak notes and fresh long indelible acidity. Lovely viscosity and mineral length; the oak in perfect symmetry to the fruit. A lovely…
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Moss Wood Ribbon Vale 2021 Cabernet Sauvignon – Ken Gargett, Wine Pilot.com
The classic red variety from Margaret River, this wine is a deep, shining red. The nose is blackberries, delicatessen meats, spices, tobacco leaves and an ever-so-slight oaky note, but it is well integrated and merely adds to the complexity evident here. Attractive dark cherry touches. Fine tannins, a hint gravelly.…
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Moss Wood Ribbon Vale 2021 Merlot – Ken Gargett, Wine Pilot.com
Aussie Merlot has rarely hit the heights that many once hoped, but there have certainly been some very fine examples and Moss Wood’s has always been among them. A deep garnet hue, the nose gives appealing plum pudding and rich fruitcake notes. A hint of chocolate and dried fruit characters.…
Read ReviewMoss Wood 2021 Pinot Noir – Ken Gargett, Wine Pilot.com
Always a controversial wine, one wonders whether detractors base their dislike simply on a once-prevailing view that Western Australia cannot or should not make Pinot Noir. These days, we have more than enough evidence that good Pinot can most certainly come from the West. Others simply like the wine because…
Read ReviewMoss Wood 2022 Chardonnay – Ken Gargett, Wine Pilot.com
A vintage of contrasts but certainly yet another of the seemingly endless procession of superb years in Margaret River. The juice was clarified in stainless steel, seeded with an array of yeasts for a controlled ferment. Racking to oak, 228-litre French oak, 54% of which was new. Full malo, blending…
Read ReviewMoss Wood 2023 Semillon – Ken Gargett, Wine Pilot.com
Always one of the most exciting West Aussie Semillons and this release is no different. The vintage notes from the team at Moss Wood rave about 2023. Cynics amongst might suggest that these guys really wouldn’t know a poor vintage if they ever had the misfortune to encounter one. It…
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Moss Wood 2018 Cabernet Sauvignon – Jancis Robinson, jancisrobinson.com
Blackish crimson. Concentrated, already intense nose. Notably smooth tannins until the very end of the palate when they really make their impact. A saline note on the end. Just a little alcohol there too. November 2022
Read ReviewMoss Wood 2022 Chardonnay – Gary Walsh, The Wine Front
Gosh, this is a bold one. Dried pear and mango, mint and butterscotch pudding, biscuit spices, lime rind and cedar. It’s full of flavour, but has a very firm cut of grapefruity acidity through ripe white fruit, with grainy wood tannin adding a drying feel, and a toasty, zesty grapefruit…
Read ReviewMoss Wood 2021 Pinot Noir – Gary Walsh, The Wine Front
Poached strawberry, cherry, a little dried rose perfume, cedar and chai. It’s medium-bodied, kind of juicy in red fruit, with a twist of orange peel, a light grainy grip to tannin, a delicate smokiness, with some pomegranate crunch, sap and iodine on a finish of good length. Lots of character.…
Read ReviewMoss Wood 2022 Chardonnay – Marc Malouf, Wine Worth Writing About
Pale gold with silver reflections and a floral and zesty nose of citrus blossoms, jasmine, grilled lime, quince, pear and melon with almond nougat, mint, dried galangal, white pepper and toasted spice.In the mouth it’s mineral, precise, gently curved and intensely flavoured with lime, orchard fruit, white stonefruits and salinity,…
Read ReviewMoss Wood 2021 Pinot Noir – Marc Malouf, Wine Worth Writing About
Ruby red with a clearing rim and a complex and Earthy nose of violets, deep red and black berries, dark cherry, plum, fig, beetroot, fresh cream, forest undergrowth, clay and even a hint of blood and bone…this is legit!The mouth is just as convincing with deeply flavoured, savoury edged fruit…
Read ReviewMoss Wood 2023 Semillon – Marc Malouf – Wine Worth Writing About
Medium straw with lime reflections and a nose of gardenia, pink rose, floral citrus, Piel de Sapo melon, custard apple, yellow plum, sweet snow peas, white pepper and candied ginger.In the mouth it’s silky, mineral, vibrant and beautifully sculpted with a delicacy and elegance I’ve not yet seen in a…
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Moss Wood Ribbon Vale 2021 Elsa – Ken Gargett, Wine Pilot.com
The third release of this wine that, if you are bored with simple and straightforward Savvys, this is a style which should appeal. Far more interest and complexity than your basic Savvy, it has been deliberately harvested at riper levels than in the past with the grapes given a couple…
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Moss Wood 2022 Semillon – Jane Faulkner – James Halliday, The Wine Companion
The depth and flesh on this wine at such a young age makes it immediately accessible, but it will last quite some distance too. Today it’s refreshing with upfront fruit, all lemon and white nectarines, lemongrass, some orange peel and grapefruit pith. Powerful yet equally compelling. August, 2023
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Moss Wood 2020 Cabernet Sauvignon – James Halliday, The Weekend Australian Magazine
It takes only a split second for this wine to establish its greatness in the pantheon of cabernet sauvignons grown around the world, pulsating with sweet fruits and a velvety mouthfeel. This is a cabernet sauvignon to melt a pinot noir addict’s heart. Drink to 2050 June, 2023
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Moss Wood Ribbon Vale 2022 Elsa – James Halliday, The Weekend Australian Magazine
Sauvignon blanc (94 per cent) and semillon (6 per cent), fermentation was initiated in stainless steel, then transferred to French barriques (6 per cent new) to complete fermentation and full mlf; matured in barrel for nine months. It is a wine that takes no prisoners. Margaret River’s dominance is absolute…
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Moss Wood 2021 Amy’s – James Halliday, The Weekend Australian Magazine
A 68/20/7/5 per cent blend of estate-grown cabernet sauvignon, merlot, malbec and petit verdot, its colour is bright, fresh crimson, the bouquet fragrant, and the palate is already complete and balanced. It is purpose-built for consumption over the next three or four years, but if for any reason it’s left…
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