Savoury style featuring black olive, seaweed and cedar in with mixed berries and liquorice. Medium-bodied, brine and plum, some grainy earthy tannin, some tang and orange peel, and a decent finish. Feels like it will be better with a few more years on it. March 2021
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Ripe strawberry and redcurrant, mint, rose oil and cedar oak. Medium-bodied, quite sappy and tangy, but has energy in that way, some leather/olive savoury stuff, and a woody flavour on a finish of solid length. Feels like a wine that wants to soften and turn into a ‘claret’ style of modest charm. March 2021
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A cooler year in Margaret River. It’s a vintage I quite like. It’s typical Moss Wood in style, which means powerful and ripe, if perhaps not the most vibrant of wines. Flavour profile runs to rum and raisin chocolate, black fruit, freshly sawn wood, roast beef and olives, submerged floral notes, and mint. Tannin is…
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Complex, varietal and classic bouquet with aromas of blackberry, plum, violet, tobacco and toasty French oak. On the palate – a full-bodied and full-flavoured wine with plums and cherries, blackberry, earth, sand, salt and toasty wood. The floral note of violets add a lovely complexity. Medium+ tannins and medium+-ish acidity, great balance and length. Drink…
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Has the nervous energy of its ’18 sibling [Moss Wood 2018 Cabernet Sauvignon], but the herbal, forest floor characters show the door to the fruit. Bordeaux lovers may enjoy this wine. Published 01 August 2020
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Full of nervous energy, its plummy fruit on one side and earthy, herbal acidity and freshness on the other. This will be ready when you are. Published August 1st, 2020
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Ripe, succulent nose that crackles with green pepper and green-peppercorn spice. Cab Sav dominates in an intensely blackcurranty and blackcurrant-bud way. Juicy and fragrant and very much of the bordeaux mould but with the sensuous sunlit roundness of New World – in a good way! Supple tannins. Generous without sacrificing elegance. Published 16 Apr 2020
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This crimson-hued, Cabernet Sauvignon-dominated Bordeaux blend is an excellent and affordable intro to the wines of one of Margaret River’s founding wineries. It’s sappy and mineral, with brambly berries laced with herbs and graphite; charred meat and vanilla make an appearance, too. In the mouth, there’s a lovely juxtaposition between luscious texture and raspy, herbflecked…
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The 2017 vintage was one of the milder vintages in WA. The latest Moss Wood captures this vintage perfectly and is without doubt one of the more restrained and tightly framed Moss Woods of recent years. Not the opulence of 2014 or the firm power of the 2016. Yet it retains the elegance, perfume and…
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Very attractive aromas of blue fruit, as well as red cherries and redcurrants with cedary, savory nuances, stones, flowers and woody spices. This is both pristine and full of interest. The palate has elegant style with a fine brand of elegant, long tannin and fresh red-berry flavo(u)rs. Up there with the finest releases, this is…
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