Reviews
Moss Wood Ribbon Vale 2024 Elsa – Ray Jordan Wine
Warmer year equates to a wine of rich, deep flavour. Typically, bright aromatics, but I find the texture and mouthfeel captivating in this latest Elsa sauvignon blanc. Floral stone fruit and lightly grassy tropical characters on the nose. The palate then reveals a subtle honeysuckle and light butterscotch, almost like a chardonnay, with a cute beeswax character. Richly layered palate with a very long, focused finish. A 10% new oak contribution adds the final flourish to a terrific wine.
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Moss Wood 2022 Cabernet Sauvignon – Fergal Gleeson, Great Wine Blog
Moss Wood Cabernet Sauvignon is one of Australia’s most respected, desired and resaleable wines!
The 2022 marks Moss Wood Cabernet’s 50th vintage. Another winery might make a brouhaha about that. But if you’ve spoken to Keith and Clare Mugford you’d know they don’t do that sort of thing!
They just do what they’ve been doing since 1979. Getting on with making great wines without any fuss.
The aromatics are predictably beguiling-berries red and black, pencil lead and graphite.
Those fruit notes are also on the palate along with all the varietal complexity you could hope for – cigar notes, black tea, bay leaf, polished tannins all sitting inside a medium bodied frame.
Moss Wood predict full maturity at 25-40 years from now. A mind-boggling wait! But one of the strengths of this site and the winemaking is how enjoyable it is on release.
If you haven’t tasted Moss Wood Cabernet, treat yourself, it really is as good as you’ve heard. And the 2022 is an exceptionally strong instalment.
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Moss Wood 2022 Cabernet Sauvignon – The Cellar Post
Beautiful definition and purity on the nose that shows fresh cassis, blackberries, and black plum, with cedar, pencil shavings, subtle vanilla and mocha nuances. Medium-full, superb freshness and concentration on the palate, dark fruit with a vibrant streak of purple, excellent oak spice, clove and tobacco, firm tannins and vibrant acidity. Structurally this is excellent. Powerful and elegant. A wine that’s begging for decade in the cellar before rewarding in spades over the following 20+. Brilliant.
Read MoreMoss Wood 2022 Cabernet Sauvignon – Gary Walsh, Wine Front
94% Cabernet Sauvignon, 4% Cabernet Franc, 2% Petit Verdot. Here we have a classic Moss Wood Cabernet, and maybe, though don’t mind me, it puts me in mind of the 2001 for richness and presence.
It’s a powerhouse Cabernet and classic Moss Wood in terms of intensity and regal carriage. Black fruit, dried cranberry, cedar, nutmeg, dried flower perfume, tobacco, and damp earth. It sweeps through the palate with grilled nuts, toast, fresh blackberry, a whole lot of sweet grainy tannin and black tea perfume, acidity is balanced and present, and the finish crackles, thunders and goes very long. Quite a wine. Outstanding.
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Moss Wood 2022 Pinot Noir – Huon Hooke, The Real Review
Margaret River isn’t one of the great pinot noir regions, consequently there are very few made there. This is the best Moss Wood pinot noir I’ve tasted for many years.
Youthful red-purple colour, bright and deep. There are cherry, ginger and iodine/peat aromas which are bright and fresh and fruit driven, while the palate is excitingly intense and bright fruited, with a core of ripe fruit sweetness and assertive but nicely balanced tannin structure. The wine fills out beautifully on the finish and rolls on for a very long time. Very impressive pinot noir now and will age well.
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Moss Wood 2022 Pinot Noir – Erin Larkin, The Wine Advocate
The 2022 Pinot Noir leads with cherry and wild strawberry, garden mint (or is it a faint waft of eucalypt, instead?) and caper brine. In the mouth, the wine is silky and almost oily/velvety in its texture, with sweet blood orange, pink peppercorn and raspberry in the mix. This is a plush-feeling wine, one that ages very well over the decades. Although an unusual variety for Margaret River—the land of Chardonnay, Cabernet and Sauvignon Blanc—Moss Wood has been a staunch advocate of Pinot Noir since the late 1970s/early 1980s. The warm and generally excellent season that was 2022 likely was a little warm for classical Pinot Noir, but this is looking excellent today, and it probably will do for a very long time to come. 14% alcohol, sealed under screw cap
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Moss Wood Ribbon Vale 2022 Cabernet Sauvignon – Erin Larkin, The Wine Advocate
The 2022 Ribbon Vale Cabernet Sauvignon is chalky and chewy, with raspberry pip, nori, iodine, bramble and fresh leather. This is elegant and attractively “not” fruit driven; instead, it’s propelled by exotic spice and tannins that feel silken. It’s a magnificent wine, a postcard from Margaret River in a bottle. 14% alcohol, sealed under screw cap.
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Moss Wood Ribbon Vale 2022 Merlot – Erin Larkin, The Wine Advocate
The 2022 Ribbon Vale Merlot is from a warm, dry and early vintage; the confluence of these climatic conditions has come together as a superb red wine vintage in the region. Aromatically, the wine leads with redcurrant and pomegranate molasses, raw cocoa and tapenade. On the spice register, we see nutmeg, clove, anise and cinnamon. It’s floral, as well. The highlight, however, is undoubtedly the tannins—chalky and ultra fine, pulverized rather than in stratum. Wow. This is excellent, just sheer elegance. 13.5% alcohol, sealed under screw cap.
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