Wine Reviews
Moss Wood 2019 Pinot Noir – Tyson Stelzer, Wine Business Magazine
Pale in colour and disposition. Spicy, tangy, ripe red berry fruits and menthol. Impressive brightness and liveliness at three years of age. Lovely fine, mineral tannin profile. Compellingly elegant. Outstanding line and length. Unashamedly cool. Enticing. 14.0% June 2022
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Moss Wood Ribbon Vale 2021 Elsa – Bob Campbell, The Real Review
This is the third vintage of Elsa Moss Wood are now picking the grapes later to introduce more passion fruit and guava complexity. The wine was fermented and matured in 228 litre French oak barrels (10% new). A barrel-fermented sauvignon blanc with gooseberry and green capsicum flavours together with riper…
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Moss Wood 2020 Amy’s – Ray Jordan, The West Australian Wine Guide 2022
A blend of cabernet sauvignon, malbec, merlot, and petit verdot. Just gorgeous from the start through to its exceptionally refined and long palate finish. Strikes such a good balance between fruit and oak with a red fruit dominance supported with a chalky mouth feel.
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Moss Wood Ribbon Vale 2018 Merlot – Christina Pickard, Wine Enthusiast
The sea of Aussie Merlot is more like a pond, but this historic producer’s version is one of its biggest fish. It’s leafy (but not in an underripe way), with lively red berry and plum fruit, white pepper, savory herbs and undergrowth. The palate delivers on the nose’s promise, with…
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Moss Wood 2019 Cabernet Sauvignon – Andrew Caillard, Wine Pilot.com – The Vintage Journal
Deep crimson. Classical blackcurrant, blackberry, cedar aromas with mocha, hint sage notes. Beautifully balanced and concentrated palate with fresh pure blackcurrent, blackberry, mulberry fruits, fine loose-knot grainy tannins and well integrated roasted almond, vanilla oak. Builds up cedar firm with an inky long plume. Let it develop for a few…
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Moss Wood Ribbon Vale 2019 Merlot – Andrew Caillard, Wine Pilot.com – The Vintage Journal
Medium deep crimson. Attractive musky dark plum aromas with hazelnut, praline notes. Generous, minerally and vigorous with saturated dark plum, mulberry, hazelnut, vanilla flavours, fine chalky al dente textures and long fresh integrated mineral acidity. Not powerful but graceful with lovely fruit complexity and vinosity. A cedary/ chalky tannin plume…
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Moss Wood Ribbon Vale 2019 Cabernet Sauvignon – Andrew Caillard, Wine Pilot.com
Medium deep crimson. Fresh blackcurrant, dark plum aromas with marzipan, herb garden violet notes. Inky deep with juicy blackcurrant, plum, mulberry fruits, fine slinky textures and underlying roasted chestnut, roasted almond notes. Finishes al dente firm with lovely mineral length. Give it another year of bottle age before drinking. A…
Read ReviewMoss Wood 2019 Pinot Noir – Andrew Caillard, Wine Pilot.com – The Vintage Journal
Medium crimson. Fragrant red cherry, redcurrant, roasted walnut aromas with herb garden, hint of peppermint notes. Well concentrated ample wine with red cherry, strawberry, leafy flavours, lovely mid-palate density and fine supple loose knit tannins. Roasted walnut notes at the finish. Not classic, but the viscosity and vigour are neatly…
Read ReviewMoss Wood Ribbon Vale 2019 Merlot – Gary Walsh, The Wine Front
Olive leaf, cedar, mint, nutty with black and red fruit. It’s savoury, quite leafy, with a slight honey flavour in with the mixed berry fruit, light grainy tannin, a bit of oak bobbing up, and an olive laced finish of solid length. A more savoury expression of Merlot, perhaps a…
Read ReviewMoss Wood Ribbon Vale 2019 Cabernet Sauvignon – Gary Walsh, The Wine Front
Nutty, a little honey perfume, red and black fruit, cedar and lemon zest. Medium-bodied, distinct hazelnut and honey thing happening here, and cedar oak, crisp acidity, seaweed and red and black fruit, light grip of furry tannin, mushroom/umami flavours too, and a toasted nut and red fruit finish of good…
Read ReviewMoss Wood 2019 Cabernet Sauvignon – Gary Walsh, The Wine Front
Powerful, compact, brooding sort of style, but tight too, all black fruit, dark chocolate, a seasoning of bay leaf and baking spice, some floral notes peeping over the top. Tannin is earthy and dense, but smooth and layered, boysenberry and dark raspberry, firm acidity set neatly inside, and a tobacco…
Read ReviewMoss Wood Ribbon Vale 2021 Chardonnay – Gary Walsh, The Wine Front
Rich, slippery, full-flavoured style. Melon and peach, Jersey caramel, some sweet spicy wood. It’s glossy and buttery, but has bright enough acidity, lots of Chardonnay flavour here, in with spiced biscuits and maybe a little lemon zest and aniseed, pulls a bit flinty on the finish, and again plenty of…
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Moss Wood Ribbon Vale 2020 Elsa – Andrew Caillard, Wine Pilot.com – The Vintage Journal
Pale colour. Fresh pineapple, stonefruit, honey aromas with herb garden, hint of grassy notes. Attractive minerally wine with fresh tropical fruit, peach, lemon glacé flavours, fine loose knit chalky textures and fresh long crisp acidity. A touch of aniseed at the finish. Delicious early drinking “classic white” style. 90% Sauvignon…
Read ReviewMoss Wood Ribbon Vale 2021 Elsa – Gary Walsh, The Wine Front
Guava, green banana, gooseberry, a little aniseed and green capsicum, cinnamon and vanilla custard oak. Smooth, vanilla cream and tropical fruit, a little passionfruit and grapefruit tang, gentle chalk dust texture, good zip of limey acid, and a creamy spicy finish of good length. Needs a little time to settle…
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Moss Wood 2020 Chardonnay – Andrew Caillard, WinePilot.com-The Vintage Journal
Pale colour. Classic nectarine, grapefruit, marzipan waxy aromas with hints of vanilla and butterscotch. Generous, creamy and minerally with fresh grapefruit, nectarine fruits, fine supple textures and underlying grilled nuts, marzipan, vanilla notes. Finishes chalky and minerally. A very buoyant style with ample fruit, lovely richness of flavour and superb…
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Moss Wood 2021 Semillon – Andrew Caillard, Winepilot.com-The Vintage Journal
Pale medium colour. Lovely intense tropical fruit, guava, lemon curd aromas. Concentrated tropical fruit, lemon curd, grapefruit flavours, fine slinky textures, lovely mid palate viscosity and fresh indelible acidity. Finishes crisp with fennel/ aniseed notes. Ripe, generous and minerally; the complete alter ego to Hunter Valley Semillon. Drink now but…
Read ReviewMoss Wood Ribbon Vale 2021 Elsa – Aaron Brasher, The Real Review
Young, bright and youthful in the glass. Complex aromas of grilled nuts, white stone fruit, cut grass and a leafy lift. The palate has a firm, creamy oak drive, plenty of nectarine and guava and pointed acidity that presents cut and drive. Plenty going on here, layered and sophisticated Published…
Read ReviewMoss Wood Ribbon Vale 2021 Elsa – Cameron Douglas, camdouglasms.com
Aromas of ripe almost sweet goosberry and lemon, there’s a distinctive mineral quality suggesting sand and salt, sea air and clay. A layer of wood spice and lees scents layer in complexity and breadth. On the palate – excellent with a coarse-silk texture then contrasting acidity and a core of…
Read ReviewMoss Wood Ribbon Vale 2021 Chardonnay – Cameron Douglas, www.camdouglasms.com
An alluring bouquet of silky textured yellow and white fleshed fruits, raw cashew nut, fine lees complexity, baked apple and a mineral core suggesting sea-shells and salty air. Youthful and complex, alluring and familiar. On the palate – fantastic; flavours of citrus and stone fruit then nut and baked fruits,…
Read ReviewMoss Wood 2019 Cabernet Sauvignon – Cameron Douglas, www.camdouglasms.com
A distinctive and enticing bouquet of dark red berries and vanilla, baked plum and clove, gun flint and violet, dark rose and fresh tobacco. Complex and youthful, vibrant and fruity. Lovely weight and mouthfeel with a core of dark red fruit flavours then almost immediately a tautness from tannins, acidity…
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