Moss Wood 2001 Pinot Noir
Wine Facts
| Harvested: | 15/2/2001 |
| Bottled: | 10/8/2002 |
| Released: | 16/10/2003 |
| Yield: | 10 t/ha |
| Baume: | 13.70 |
| Alcohol: | 14.00% |
| Vintage Rating: | 9/10 |
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Tasting Notes
The wine has a medium ruby colour. On the nose the fruit aromas are quite floral, showing dark cherry, plum and quince jelly, with spicy and sappy complex notes. These are reminiscent of Thai herbs like coriander and match with linen and linseed characters. The background has toasty oak and some typical earth and mushroom as well.
The palate has initial impact of dark fruits and apricots that fill the mouth and combine with medium weight and lively acid to give good depth and balance. There are firm tannins on the mid and back palate providing good structure and there is soft oak and lingering ripe strawberry fruit on the finish.
Moss Wood 2022 Pinot Noir – Ray Jordan, Ray Jordan Wine
Pinot in Margaret River remains an enigma. Yet when you get good years it works well. The generosity of the ’22 vintage is captured in this pretty and powerful pinot. Wild raspberry and cherry notes with a subtle spice. The palate is deeply intense but delivers a light effortless touch….
Moss Wood 2021 Pinot Noir – Jane Faulkner – James Halliday, The Wine Companion
Vibrant and lively, full of red flowers and redcurrants, black cherries and dried raspberry powder with some red lollies too. The palate is tight, a little lean, yet full of sweet fruit and puckering acidity, which does temper the slight bitter green edge to the tannins. It has an appeal….
Moss Wood 2020 Pinot Noir – Erin Larkin, The Wine Advocate
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Moss Wood 2021 Pinot Noir – Erin Larkin, The Wine Advocate
The 2021 Pinot Noir leads with strawberry and garden mint on the nose, which pull through onto the palate. The wine is intense and concentrated, although light in the glass, and it shows a cavalcade of red fruits, briar, rose, cherry, pomegranate and pink peppercorns. This is a really lovely…
WA Wine Review 2024
Ray Jordan “Moss Wood is a family-owned wine company and a pioneer of the Margaret River region. Planted in 1969, Moss Wood is an important founding estate of Margaret River. Clare and Keith Mugford, as viticulturalists, winemakers and proprietors, have been tending the vineyard and making wine at Moss Wood…
Moss Wood 2021 Pinot Noir – Fergal Gleeson, Great Wine Blog
Beautiful aromatics of black and red fruits on the nose. they follow through on tasting along with cola and some fine, earthy tannins. It’s a clean and polished Pinot with great balance and acidity courtesy of a cooler vintage. Not many have followed Moss Wood’s lead on making a premium…
Moss Wood 2021 Pinot Noir – Ray Jordan, Ray Jordan Wine
This cooler vintage was ideal for pinot from this part of Margaret River. Perfumed and highly scented aromas of strawberry and sour cherry with a slightly truffly influence. The velvety palate captures that iron fist in a velvet varietal character. Smooth and seamless with a gossamer like sheen. Beautiful. November,…
Moss Wood 2021 Pinot Noir – Angus Hughson, Wine Pilot.com
This gently fragrant 2021 Pinot Noir offers up fleshy aromas of raspberry compote, tobacco and spice, nicely framed by French oak. Dry, and mid weight, layers of red licorice and raspberry flavours rise up on a supple palate with commendable length. Very approachable to enjoy now and over the medium…
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
Moss 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…
Vintage Notes
Over the years, the style of this wine has evolved as we made changes to our technique. The 2001 vintage is another step in the process. We have been concerned about alcohol levels in the Pinot Noir, where above 14% they can swamp the delicate fruit characters of the variety. Virtually every wine made since 1993 has an alcohol above this figure.
The reason for this is largely associated with the yeasts used for fermentation, which are very productive. This is fine if the wine is being made in a climate where grape ripeness is barely adequate but of course, this is not the case in Margaret River. Our challenge then is to produce the best flavours in the vineyard at lower levels of ripeness.
In order to achieve this, we have begun an aggressive program in the vineyard, improving fruit exposure right through the season and also setting yields to a maximum of 35 hectolitres per hectare, as per the requirements of the great vineyards of Burgundy.
Production Notes
In contrast to the vineyard, winery production techniques have changed very little. The fruit was hand picked and then 95% was de-stemmed into open fermenters while the remaining 5% was included as whole bunches. The must was then chilled down to 10C, cold soaked for 3 days and pumped over twice per day. Each batch was then seeded with a pure yeast culture and allowed to ferment up to 32C. Plunging was done 4 times per day and the wine was pressed after 14 days on skins. All pressings were included and the wine was racked into barrel for malolactic fermentation. It stayed in French oak barriques for 22 months and was fined, filtered and bottled in March 2003.
Cellaring Notes
For those who are keen to cellar this wine, it should continue to age well for at least 10 years. Pinot Noir as a variety ages really well in the bottle. In general we would expect our pinot noir wines to start to show their full potential at 7 years from their vintage and be giving their peak performances somewhere between 10 - 15 years.