Medium-full colour with a bright purple tint; gumleaf mint aromatics at first sniff, as well as dark cherry and spice. The palate is intense and driving, with very good line and length, precise and tight but with a fraction of hardness which time should resolve. A structured pinot of real promise.
December 2025
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The inaugural release of Amy’s Cuvée Blanc is a 90% Semillon / 10% Sauvignon Blanc blend. This is Semillon at its most appealing—fresh, balanced, and showing subtle tropical and lemongrass notes.
Fermented and lightly aged in old oak, it has attractive palate weight and texture. A delicious, drink-now style.
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Amy’s 2024 is Moss Wood’s well-known Cabernet blend: 72% Cabernet Sauvignon with roughly equal parts Merlot, Malbec and Petit Verdot. It bursts with juicy freshness, offering red and black fruits along with tapenade.
It finishes with satisfying Cabernet markers of tea, tobacco and leather.
November, 2025
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It’s a bold and fruit forward wine offering blackberry, raspberry, dark chocolate, liquorice and a dried flower perfume. It’s fleshy and juicy in black fruit, mocha richness, a grainy grip to tannin, acidity is balanced, maybe has some orange nip to it, and finishes earthy, with a slight chicory bitterness, closes quite firm with good length. It’s kind of robust and rugged, but has plenty to sink your teeth into all the same.
October, 2025
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This is a brilliant Pinot Noir from the Team at Moss Wood, and arguably the best I’ve tried to date. It’s a serious proposition, and it borders on vinicide to open at this early stage. Alas, notes needed to be written and bottle was sacrificed! Powerfully and spicy on the nose. Crunchy red berry fruits, florals, oak spice, cinnamon, fresh tobacco, perhaps a hint of pine sap. Medium-bodied, structured and firm on the palate with a wonderful red berry crunch, plums and cherries, tightly coiled acidity and fine tannins. Impressive detail and finesse on show. Excellent, but needs time or 24+ hours to show its best.
Drink – 2027–2039
November, 2025
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Another superb Margaret River Chardonnay from the team at Moss Wood. Fermentation was completed in French oak barriques, 55% of which were new. Maturation was over a period of a year and a half. Lemon yellow in colour, the wine has a glorious nose, full of notes of mandarins, oyster shells, grilled cashews, stone fruits, ginger, white peaches, lemon curd, florals and citrus. Just stunning. Such a subtle and seductive texture; there is complexity already evident, and an intensity which runs the full length. And what length it is. Always balanced, this is a cracking Chardonnay for drinking over the next ten to twelve years. You know where you can take your similarly priced White Burgs… Drink 2027–2038.
December, 2025
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The name, we are told, means “in another way”, in French, which the team see as reflective of their Pinot Noir journey. Many have questioned why they persist with this variety when the region seems, if not better suited to other grapes, then more successful with them. Perhaps, quite simply, because they have a loyal following from wine lovers who thoroughly enjoy these wines. The fruit here came from the Karridale sub-region in the south of the Margaret River. The team used 30% whole bunches in the fermentation. Maturation was for fifteen months in oak, 18% of which was new. Crimson/russet in colour, the nose reveals notes of cherries, mushrooms, smoked meats, dried herbs and animal skins. Quite savoury in style, the wine is of medium length, finishing with abundant, very fine tannins and line of juicy acidity. The palate sees the emergence of red fruit notes and the wine is quite firm on the finish. Enjoy over the next six to seven years. Drink 2029–2035.
December, 2025
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Semillon Sauvignon Blanc here. Wonderful freshness and focus on the nose, granny smiths, peach skins, meadow grasses, guava and underripe pineapple. Textured and nudging, rich on the palate, beautiful acidity, drive and concentration. I’d love to see this with a bit of bottle age.
Drink 2025-2035
November, 2025
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Darker, fleshier, and more fruit forward than the flagship Pinot Noir by Moss Wood. Cherries, cherry stones, plum, wild strawberries, hints of citrus peel and black tea, perhaps a touch of pepper on the nose. Medium-bodied and concentrated on the palate, those darker fruit qualities transition through from the nose with further savoury complexity delivered through notes of earth, thyme and a subtle vanilla sweetness. Lovely drinking and a very nice new addition to the line up.
November, 2025
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