Reviews Archives - Moss Wood

Moss Wood 2025 Chardonnay – Fergal Gleeson, Great Wine Blog

Moss Wood have some of the oldest plantings of Chardonnay in Margaret River (along with Leeuwin Estate). The Moss Wood Chardonnay 2025 follows the classic house style of rich Chardonnays. It’s full bodied and concentrated with peach, nectarine, lime and cashew flavours. While many Australian winemakers are tilting to early picked, leaner Chardonnays Moss Wood’s remains a complex and concentrated style. It is balanced by a refreshing acid that runs through the wine so does not feel excessively heavy. The dry grown grapes root depths in 50% new oak. The sweet spot for this wine is 5-10 years but Moss Wood note that it has the density and balance to last for many more years should you like aged Chardonnays with extra toast and honey.

October, 2026

Rating: Stars

Moss Wood 2026 Amy’s Cuvee Blanc – Ray Jordan, Ray Jordan Wine

This is the second release of this wine, which was introduced when Moss Wood decided to move its semillon into a cellar release with five years of age. It’s Moss Wood semillon and Ribbon Vale sauvignon blanc, with a little barrel fermentation and maturation. This is an SSB with class. The nutty, lightly fruity aromas and flavours are exquisitely presented, with great purity and pristine freshness through a long palate. Love it. Cellar: 9 years

September, 2026

95 Points

Rating: Stars

Moss Wood 2025 Amy’s – Ray Jordan, Ray Jordan Wine

One of the most popular of all the Moss Wood wines. It comes from the Glenmore vineyard a little further north and is a cabernet sauvignon, merlot, malbec and petit verdot blend. Every year it hits the mark with its delivery of beautiful, rich fruit character. Blackcurrant and dark chocolate on the nose, and a succulent and lavish palate that is so exquisitely balanced and poised. This is one of the best. Cellar: 10 years

September, 2026

95 Points

Rating: Stars

Moss Wood Ribbon Vale 2024 Merlot – Ray Jordan, Ray Jordan Wine

Another cracking good merlot from a vineyard that consistently produces some of the very best examples of this variety from anywhere in the country. Perhaps a more powerful and deeply intense version of the great 2023, but still with that elegant refinement and purity of fruit expression. Floral, perfumed notes on the nose, with red berry and light fruitcake nuances. The palate is seamlessly integrated, with a fine, chalky, cracked-shell-like character balancing the fruit.

96 Points

Rating: Stars

Moss Wood Ribbon Vale 2024 Cabernet Sauvignon – Ray Jordan

A wine that simply oozes cabernet. So much work has gone into this vineyard over the years and it is now reaping the rewards. Bright, leafy red berry notes on the nose, with a palate that is seamlessly medium-bodied yet with a succulent core of concentrated dark fruits. It’s brilliant and so bright, with a palate supported by chalky tannins and nicely implemented oak. Cellar: 16 years

96 Points

Rating: Stars

Moss Wood 2024 Pinot Noir – Ray Jordan, Ray Jordan Wine

The first Moss Wood wine I ever tasted was a pinot back in 1981, so I have always had a soft spot for it. This fits snugly into the Moss Wood style, with plenty of generous, bright red fruit character on the nose and then delivered with a burst on the palate. Typically bright, with a lustrous energy evident in the light, red-crimson hues. Dry, chalky tannins help focus through to the finish.

September, 2026

95 Points

Rating: Stars

Moss Wood 2025 Chardonnay – Ray Jordan, Ray Jordan Wine

A most elegant and, at the same time, powerful chardonnay from a vintage which produced – well – elegance and power. Aromas of savoury lemon nuances with subtle butterscotch and marzipan character. The palate is texturally pleasing, with a deep and concentrated core that drives with urgency through to a very long finish. Lovely mix of stone fruit with savoury elements giving it layered complexity. Finishes with a dry, struck-match flintiness that completes an excellent wine.

September, 2026

96 Points

Rating: Stars

Moss Wood 2025 Amy’s – Gary Walsh, The Wine Front

81% Cabernet Sauvignon, 8% Merlot, 8% Malbec and 3% Petit Verdot. After the pretty robust 2024, we are back into a more ‘classic’ vintage with 2025.

Blue and black fruit, raspberry jubes, roses and chocolate box, black olive and nori, light cedar oak and spice. It’s medium-bodied, quite supple in the tannin department, just a quiet grainy grip on offer here, a light glycerol feel lends a certain slipperiness, some savoury nutty flavour and milk chocolate, again the blue fruits with an iodine-laced finish of good length. A very nice drink. Quite approachable too.

Drink: 2026 – 2035

September, 2026

93 Points

Rating: Stars

Moss Wood 2025 Chardonnay – Mike Bennie, The Wine Front

A very convincing, fuller flavoured and yet controlled chardonnay of rich qualities and yet refreshing undertow. Quite a bit of nougat, vanilla wafer on red apple, nectarine, ginger biscuit and a sense of alpine herbs. It’s a big swish of flavour and texture, palate staining in a sense. Balanced and beautiful in the bold stakes.

September, 2026

95 Points

Rating: Stars

Moss Wood 2025 Chardonnay – Gary Walsh, The Wine Front

“Our first Chardonnay was made in 1980 and, after the difficult seasons of 1981 and 1982, it has been produced every year since 1983 from those original vines. The 2025 is our 44th overall release and 43rd consecutive vintage, continuing a story that will soon span half a century.”

This is bold and opulent wine, as is usually the way with Moss Wood Chardonnay, but it’s corralled by tight grapefruit acidity and finishes with freshness and excellent length. I could probably leave it there if you know the wines, though I’ll add that there’s stone fruit, pine-lime and citrus, spicy cedar oak, a distinct aniseed perfume, something of glossy vanilla custard and cashew richness, and some flinty grip to texture. It’s a thoroughly impressive wine, flavourtown, but balanced and tight. Its best days are ahead of it.

September, 2026

95 Points

Rating: Stars