Wine Reviews
![A bottle of Ribbon Vale wine laying on a table](https://www.mosswood.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/01_20230131_MOSS-WOOD_Creatives_Elsa-2022_Horizontal-456x304.jpg)
Moss Wood Ribbon Vale 2022 Elsa – Marc Malouf, Wines Worth Writing About
Straw with a touch of lime and a floral and highly aromatic nose of honeysuckle, gardenia and frangipani with guava, yellow pear, Piel de Sapo melon, snow peas, Chantilly, nougat, cashew and lime cordial. There’s a touch of salinity in the background too. In the mouth it’s rich, creamy and…
Read Review![A bottle of Ribbon Vale wine laying on a table](https://www.mosswood.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/01_20230131_MOSS-WOOD_Creatives_Elsa-2022_Horizontal-456x304.jpg)
Moss Wood Ribbon Vale 2022 Elsa – Edward Agg, The Cellar Post
There’s plenty about this wine. Quality release Nose – White peach, pear, guava, lychee, generous yet focused with a gooseberry citrus tightness, dried grassy qualities, and hints of toasted oak spice. Palate – Medium-bodied, rich, balanced. White stonefruit with a sweeter tropical core, peach, guava, and gooseberry crunchiness. Plenty of…
Read Review![A bottle of Moss Wood Cabernet Sauvignon wine laying on a table](https://www.mosswood.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/20221114_MOSS-WOOD_Creative_2020-Cabernet-Sauvignon-hori-456x304.jpg)
Moss Wood 2020 Cabernet Sauvignon – Marc Malouf, Wine Worth Writing About
Ruby and purple with a slightly different nose to what I remember from the Moss Wood Cabernet’s of past vintages. There’s a fig leafiness in there, some musky florals, white pepper, baked blueberry and hints of olive that sit alongside blackberry, creme de cassis, fern, tobacco, cedar, tar and smoky…
Read Review![](https://www.mosswood.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/20220120_MOSS-WOOD_2021-Elsa-H-456x304.jpg)
Moss Wood Ribbon Vale 2021 Elsa – Cameron Douglas, camdouglasms.com
Aromas of ripe almost sweet goosberry and lemon, there’s a distinctive mineral quality suggesting sand and salt, sea air and clay. A layer of wood spice and lees scents layer in complexity and breadth. On the palate – excellent with a coarse-silk texture then contrasting acidity and a core of…
Read Review![](https://www.mosswood.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/20220811_MOSS-WOOD_Creatives-2020-RV-Merlot_Horizontal-456x304.jpg)
Moss Wood Ribbon Vale 2020 Merlot – Cameron Douglas, camdouglasms.com
A precise, measured and focused bouquet with scents of baking spices and roasted plums, some black berry fruits and wood smoke. Complex and youthful, enticing and new. Delicious and dry on the palate with flavours of anise and vanilla, plums and dark berry fruits and nut. Firm tannins and acidity…
Read Review![](https://www.mosswood.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/20220811_MOSS-WOOD_Creatives-2020-RV-Cabernet-Sauvignon_Horizontal-456x304.jpg)
Moss Wood Ribbon Vale 2020 Cabernet Sauvignon – Cameron Douglas, camdouglasms.com
A lovely bouquet with a complex mix of soft smoky wood and dark berries, crushed violets and sweet tobacco, sweet black olives and bell-peppers with baking spices and clay soil scents. Weighty, itense and dry on the palate, there’s lots of textures from tannins and acidity then contrasting flavours of…
Read Review![](https://www.mosswood.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/01_20211115_MOSS-WOOD_2019-Cabernet-Sauvignon-750ml_creatives_horizontal-456x304.jpg)
Moss Wood 2019 Cabernet Sauvignon – Cameron Douglas, camdouglasms.com
A distinctive and enticing bouquet of dark red berries and vanilla, baked plum and clove, gun flint and violet, dark rose and fresh tobacco. Complex and youthful, vibrant and fruity. Lovely weight and mouthfeel with a core of dark red fruit flavours then almost immediately a tautness from tannins, acidity…
Read Review![](https://www.mosswood.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/10_20210811_MOSS-WOOD_Creatives_2019-RV-Merlot-H-456x304.jpg)
Moss Wood Ribbon Vale 2019 Merlot – Cameron Douglas, camdouglasms.com
Smoky, toasty, dark fruited and inviting with aromas of ripe dark plums and blue fruits, baking spice and clove spices from barrel. Dry, youthful, balanced, fruity and fresh on the palate. Frim tannins and acid line contrast a core of fruit and flavours that mirror the bouquet. Balanced, refreshing, salivating…
Read Review![](https://www.mosswood.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/09_20210811_MOSS-WOOD_Creatives_2019-RV-Cabernet-Sauvignon_H-456x304.jpg)
Moss Wood Ribbon Vale 2019 Cabernet Sauvignon – Cameron Douglas, camdouglasms.com
Ripe, fruity, varietal and nicely complex bouquet without being overdone. Aromas of black berries and dark plums, violets and dried herb, some tobacco and bell-pepper layers then scents of fresh new wood and mild toasty spices. Equally complex and delicious on the palate with flavours of violets and red berries…
Read Review![A bottle of Ribbon Vale wine laying on a table](https://www.mosswood.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/01_20230131_MOSS-WOOD_Creatives_Chardonnay-2022_Horizontal.jpg-456x304.jpg)
Moss Wood Ribbon Vale 2022 Chardonnay – Gary Walsh, The Wine Front
Pretty rich and slick style here. Pineapple, peach, aniseed, toasted cashew, white chocolate and vanilla. It’s creamy and viscous, but has some lively limey acidity and flavour, powdery texture, cashew and apricot on a gently spicy finish of good length. It’s quite a lot of wine, but very pleasing in…
Read Review![](https://www.mosswood.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/20220713_MOSS-WOOD_Creatives_2022-Semillon_Hori-456x304.jpg)
Moss Wood 2022 Semillon – Gary Walsh, The Wine Front
Pie apple, pear, jasmine, toast and cinnamon. It’s rich and flavoursome, a little warm in alcohol, but chalky and juicy, stonefruit, guava, pineapple, a pithy lemon/lime thing, a bit broad and throaty, but full of flavour and toasty spices. Solid. 2022 – 2027 November, 2022
Read Review![A bottle of Moss Wood 2021 Amy's Vintage laying on a table with a full glass of wine](https://www.mosswood.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/20220713_MOSS-WOOD_Creatives_2021-Amys_Hori-456x304.jpg)
Moss Wood 2021 Amy’s – Gary Walsh, The Wine Front
Red fruits, mulberry and cherry, hazelnut chocolate, mint nougat, and some biscuit spice. It’s supple and fleshy, quite the chocolate nuts flavour, juicy spiced poached strawberry, light grainy tannin, and a succulent and nutty finish of good length. There’s almost a sweet red apple flavour too. It’s at ease with…
Read Review![A bottle of Moss Wood Cabernet Sauvignon wine laying on a table](https://www.mosswood.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/20221114_MOSS-WOOD_Creative_2020-Cabernet-Sauvignon-hori-456x304.jpg)
Moss Wood 2020 Cabernet Sauvignon – Gary Walsh, The Wine Front
Red and black fruit, something of an aniseed pastille thing here too, some floral notes, tobacco, cedar, and baking spice. It’s medium-bodied, kind of svelte and evenly weighted, just a little toasty oak, with some black olive and nori savoury elements. the tannin is quiet, and kind of latent, but…
Read Review![](https://www.mosswood.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/20220811_MOSS-WOOD_Creatives-2020-RV-Cabernet-Sauvignon_Horizontal-456x304.jpg)
Moss Wood Ribbon Vale 2020 Cabernet Sauvignon – Gary Walsh, The Wine Front
Red and black fruit, dark mint chocolate, coffee bean and tar. Medium to full-bodied, rum and raisin chocolate, dried herbs and cedar, firm grainy tannin, fresh small red berry acidity, something of an ironstone character too, with a savoury dried cherry chocolate finish of excellent length. 2024 – 2031+ January…
Read Review![](https://www.mosswood.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/20220811_MOSS-WOOD_Creatives-2020-RV-Merlot_Horizontal-456x304.jpg)
Moss Wood Ribbon Vale 2020 Merlot – Gary Walsh, The Wine Front
Red and black fruits, olive leaf, mint, a honeysuckle perfume, mocha and cedar. Medium-bodied, some cherry and chocolate in with redcurrant jelly, coffee and honey, tight grainy tannin, coffee bean and olive, clean acidity, and a dusty cedar finish of excellent length. Savoury, balanced, and likely better again with some…
Read Review![](https://www.mosswood.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/07_20211115_MOSS-WOOD_2020-Pinot-Noir-750ml_creatives_horizontal-456x304.jpg)
Moss Wood 2020 Pinot Noir – Gary Walsh, The Wine Front
One thing you can say of Moss Wood Pinot Noir, is they are never short of character. Ripe strawberry, baked cherry with spicy pie crust, a little toast and tar, some musky perfume. It’s medium-bodied, a little savoury and earthy, ripe cherry and red fruits, fresh with fine grainy tannin,…
Read Review![](https://www.mosswood.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/01_20211115_MOSS-WOOD_2019-Cabernet-Sauvignon-750ml_creatives_horizontal-456x304.jpg)
Moss Wood 2019 Cabernet Sauvignon – Peter Forrestal, Money Magazine
This was a tricky, cool vintage for one of Margaret River’s finest vineyards, Moss Wood; yet the cabernet ripened at the right time and produced an excellent red.It’s restrained at present with power and depth, blueberry and red cherry flavours, before a finish of great length and finesse. Cellaring will…
Read Review![](https://www.mosswood.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/20220811_MOSS-WOOD_Creatives-2020-RV-Cabernet-Sauvignon_Horizontal-456x304.jpg)
Moss Wood Ribbon Vale 2020 Cabernet Sauvignon – Winsor Dobbin, Winsor’s Choice
The Mugford family at Moss Wood rarely puts a foot wrong, regardless of the grape variety, or the vintage. This is a classic Margaret River cabernet from the Ribbon Vale vineyard; very stylish but with a hint of confident swagger. The dark cabernet fruit is aided and abetted by small…
Read Review![](https://www.mosswood.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/20220120_MOSS-WOOD_2021-RV-Chardonnay-H-456x304.jpg)
Moss Wood Ribbon Vale 2021 Chardonnay – Bob Campbell, The Real Review
Intense, tangy chardonnay with green apple, oyster-shell, mineral, grapefruit, nectarine and spicy oak flavours. Quite a lively, high-energy wine, with mouth-watering acidity that helps to drive a lengthy finish. 2022–2028 April, 2022
Read Review![](https://www.mosswood.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/20220120_MOSS-WOOD_2021-RV-Chardonnay-H-456x304.jpg)
Moss Wood Ribbon Vale 2021 Chardonnay – Gabrielle Poy, The Real Review
Heady vanillin and nutmeg aromas rise from the glass, and then notes of pineapple and lemon pith come through. The flavours build finishing with rich crème caramel tones. The oak is prominent and needs time to integrate with the fruit. This is a bolder premium style that will appeal to…
Read Review