Wine Reviews
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
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
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
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
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
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
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 ReviewMoss 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
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 ReviewMoss 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 ReviewMoss Wood 2021 Amy’s – Stuart Knox, The Real Review
A bright ruby red colour. Raspberry and crushed violet aromas lift from the glass. Fresh and juicy on the palate, there’s a joyous vibrancy to the wine that keeps you entertained on repeat visits. The tannins are almost playful in their fine-grained persistence, and a hint of freshening acidity as…
Read ReviewMoss Wood 2020 Pinot Noir – Bob Campbell, The Real Review
A high energy pinot noir with assertive tannins balancing sweet fruit. I like the wine’s spiciness which adds extra complexity to dark cherry/berry characters. Ripe and moderately complex wine with cellaring potential. 2023–2030 January, 2023
Read ReviewMoss Wood Ribbon Vale 2020 Merlot – Bob Campbell, The Real Review
An appealing scent of ripe plum and red rose lead to cassis, cherry/berry flavours with a backbone of ripe tannins and refreshing acidity. It is a wine with energy and cellaring potential. A little edgy right now but that should correct in two to three years. January, 2023
Read ReviewMoss Wood Ribbon Vale 2020 Merlot – Stuart Knox, The Real Review
A dense ruby colour with rich plum compote, lavender, and chocolate aromas in the glass. Dark and weighty plum fruits fill the core whilst a curing meat and rosemary herbal tone adds to its character. Tannins are firm, controlling the weight of fruit whilst also accentuating a deep stony mineral…
Read Review
Moss Wood 2021 Chardonnay – Bob Campbell, The Real Review
Rich, mouth-filling chardonnay with peach, butterscotch, oyster shell, sizzled butter and spicy oak flavours supported by just enough vibrant acidity to prevent any suggestion of cloying. January, 2023
Read ReviewMoss Wood 2022 Semillon – Bob Campbell, The Real Review
Weighty, mouth-filling yet vibrant wine with marzipan, lemon curd, lime zest and white wildflowers. High-energy semillon with a backbone of assertive acidity that is a perfect fit with the wine’s restrained fruit sweetness. January, 2023
Read ReviewMoss Wood Ribbon Vale 2020 Cabernet Sauvignon – Stuart Knox, The Real Review
Deep and vibrant ruby red with a bouquet of cassis, tobacco, and pencil shavings. Medium bodied but with a sense of intensity to its black fruit that demands your attention. Hints of black spices and curing meat add to the attraction and firm tannins are well poised to carry the…
Read ReviewMoss Wood Ribbon Vale 2020 Cabernet Sauvignon – Bob Campbell, The Real Review
Delicious wine with cassis, black cherry/berry, anise, pepper, cacao powder, cigar box and spicy oak. Sumptuous wine that is a pleasure to taste and will, I suggest, get even better as it ages. It has a wonderful texture and impressive underlying power. January 2023
Read ReviewMoss Wood 2021 Amy’s – Winsor Dobbin, Winsor’s Choice
This is not the most expensive wine in the excellent Moss Wood range, nor is it the highest profile, But it is certainly one of the best value: a medium-bodied Bordeaux blend from Margaret River with impeccable balance and dangerous drinkability. The blend is 68% cabernet sauvignon, 20% merlot, 7%…
Read ReviewMoss Wood Ribbon Vale 2020 Cabernet Sauvignon – Angus Hughson, Winepilot
Here we have a real claret style – a highly pure and elegant Cabernet blend with a smattering of other Bordeaux varieties. It opens with bright and appealing aromas of red and black currant fruits with dried herbs in support all well integrated with high quality oak. It’s then mid-weight…
Read Review