Moss Wood 2005 Pinot Noir
Wine Facts
| Harvested: | 3/2/2005 |
| Bottled: | 2/11/2006 |
| Released: | 7/11/2007 |
| Yield: | 5.35 t/ha |
| Baume: | 13.10 |
| Alcohol: | 13.50% |
| Vintage Rating: | 9/10 |
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Tasting Notes
Deep ruby colour, a complex nose of bright strawberries and dark cherry flavours across the mid and back palate. It has fresh acidity and firm tannins though these are well-balanced by fruit and spicy, charry oak flavours and its weight.
Peter Forrestal’s tasting notes describe the wine as having pretty, lifted aromatics and rich, concentrated and complex, mulberry, black cherry flavours with some gamey, stalky notes; powerful, long and balanced.
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
The 2020 Pinot Noir is concentrated and red fruited, with berries and garden mint. The mint character feels like a vineyard characteristic to me, as I see it so often in the wines, and it sits so well within the red fruit character of the wine, which includes red cherries,…
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
The 2005 growing season in Margaret River was great and so we have high hopes for the pinot noir.
The vineyard management program applied the usual rigour so necessary with this variety. Yields were very good and so aggressive that bunch thinning was necessary to get the crop down to the required level of between 2 and 3 tonnes per acre and hand leaf removal maximised fruit exposure.
Production Notes
The winemaking approach followed traditional practice at Moss Wood. The grapes were destemmed into open tanks, with 5% of bunches being included uncrushed. Longterm readers of the newsletter would know that 15 years ago 50% of bunches were uncrushed. The consequent characters derived from stalks are no longer considered a desirable character either in Burgundy or Margaret River central - except to provide some subliminal background complexity. The wine was aged for 20 months in new (33%) and used oak before being racked into tank where it was sterile filtered (but not fined) before bottling on 3rd November 2006.
Cellaring Notes
Given the quality of the vintage, we see this as being an excellent wine and using the historical tasting of November 2006 as our guide, we recommend a minimum cellaring time of 10 years. During this time it will gradually soften and become more complex, showing Pinot Noir’s earthy, mushroom and meaty notes. Given the staying power exhibited by the 1985, we think the 2005 will age quite comfortably to 20 years of age for those who are really keen on cellaring.