Wine Reviews
Moss Wood 2023 Cabernet Sauvignon – Angus Hughson, Wine Pilot
The 2023 Cabernet Sauvignon is extraordinary. Tasted first from barrel, it was a picture of restrained power and nothing has changed with seamless and perfectly composed aromas of cassis and red currant with a gentle lining of dried herb. This is a wine of elegance, pinpoint balance and precision rather…
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Moss Wood 2008 Chardonnay – Ken Gargett, Wine Pilot
A glorious mature Margaret River Chardonnay, this is deep gold in color, offering obvious depth and maturity. The nose exhibits notes of hazelnuts, stewed peaches, honeysuckle, and gunflint. Fully developed and utterly delicious; there is power and intensity, and yet we still have refinement. Immeasurably long, this is finely balanced…
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Moss Wood Ribbon Vale 2023 Merlot – Andrew Caillard, The Vintage Journal
Medium deep crimson. Fresh dark plum, redcurrant, cedar, black olive aromas and flavours with herb garden/ star anise notes. A core of sweet fruit with underlying cedar/ fine grainy tannins and hints of vanilla oak. Finishes grippy firm with some sappy notes. Very buoyant and expressive but probably best to…
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Moss Wood Ribbon Vale 2023 Cabernet Sauvignon – Andrew Caillard, The Vintage Journal
Medium deep crimson. Attractive cassis, blackberry pastille. dark chocolate aromas with some cedar notes. Inky deep with abundant blackcurrant, blackberry fruits, underlying vanilla, roasted chestnut notes, fine grainy – touch al dente tannins and fresh long tangy acidity. Finishes velvety firm and juicy. Still elemental but lovely richness and volume.…
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Moss Wood Ribbon Vale 2025 Elsa – Andrew Caillard, The Vintage Journal
Pale colour. Very attractive waxy, lemon curd, honey aromas with hints marzipan. Supple and minerally with ample waxy, lemon curd, tonic water, touch leafy flavours, looseknit chalky textures, lovely mid-palate volume and fresh long crisp acidity. Some aniseed notes at the finish. Ready to drink. 90% Sauvignon Blanc, 10% Semillon.…
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Moss Wood Ribbon Vale 2025 Chardonnay – Andrew Caillard, The Vintage Journal
Pale colour. Fresh tropical fruit, lemon curd, grapefruit aromas with underlying cashew nut, vanilla notes. Well concentrated lemon curd, grapefruit, hint pineapple fruits, fine lacy touch al dente textures and some underlying marzipan, vanilla notes. Finishes crisp and fruity. A very pleasing style. At the middle of fermentation, the wine…
Read ReviewMoss Wood 2023 Cabernet Sauvignon – Andrew Caillard, The Vintage Journal
Deep crimson. Intense blackcurrant, espresso, roasted chestnut aromas with hints of black olive/ spice. Inky deep and generously concentrated with ample cassis, black cherry, mocha flavours, superb roasted chestnut/ marzipan notes, and classical fine-grained tannins. Builds up claret/ cedar firm with a lovely pure black currant plume. The oak is…
Read ReviewMoss Wood Ribbon Vale 2023 Cabernet Sauvignon – Gary Walsh, The Wine Front
Fresh blackberry and mulberry, a little smoked paprika, bay leaf, spice and cedar. It’s medium-bodied, blackberry, mint, black olive and dried herbs, a cranberry freshness to acidity, a hazelnut feel to tannin, with a crisp, nutty and spicy red-fruited finish of very good length. Quite restrained and tight as at…
Read ReviewMoss Wood Ribbon Vale 2023 Merlot – Gary Walsh, The Wine Front
Cherry, plum, olive leaf and oregano, cedar and tobacco, a nutmeg and lemon zest top note. It’s medium-bodied, quite savoury, nutty and earthy, a mix of red and black fruit, plenty of tightly-knit tannin, balanced acidity, with a firm black olive laced finish of excellent length. Quite compact at present…
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Moss Wood 2025 Autrement Pinot Noir – Gary Walsh, The Wine Front
Pinot Noir from Karridale. 2025 was a very good vintage for Margaret River. I served this to my partner and asked what it might be. “Is it Grenache or maybe Nebbiolo? It’s not Pinot Noir is it?” And there you have an astute summary of the wine. Cherry, strawberry, orange…
Read ReviewMoss Wood Ribbon Vale 2023 Cabernet Sauvignon – Ray Jordan
Yet another example of how an intense and rigorous concentration on the vineyard is producing such wonderful results these days for Moss Wood. And this is such an elegant and stylish cabernet sauvignon that reflects both that vineyard and the wonderful ’23 vintage. Bright red, energetic fruits on the nose,…
Read ReviewMoss Wood Ribbon Vale 2023 Merlot -Ray Jordan
This vineyard has been producing some of Australia’s best merlots in recent years. This one is perhaps the most refined and elegantly poised of any I can recall. The vintage has clearly played an important part. The nose shows all of those black fruit, spicy, slightly mocha-like characters. While the…
Read ReviewMoss Wood 2025 Autrement Pinot Noir – Ray Jordan
So this is a wine that’s been sourced from further south at Karridale, a region that is far cooler than the Wilyabrup sub-region of Moss Wood. Outremont is French for “another way”, and that explains Moss Wood’s sourcing of pinot from another region. There’s a beautiful perfumed red fruit aroma,…
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Moss Wood Ribbon Vale 2025 Chardonnay – Ray Jordan
This vineyard has really been turning out some quite marvellous wines in recent years. It took a bit of work, but the results are in the bottle. This is a beautiful, vibrant, lively chardonnay with that subtle degree of complexity complementing the natural fruit characters. Nutty lemon curd and deeper…
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Moss Wood Ribbon Vale 2025 Elsa – Ray Jordan
I’ve been a fan of this wine since it was introduced just a few years ago, and I have to say, this one from what was an excellent season stacks up with any that have yet been released. It’s a largely sauvignon blanc with a small percentage of semillon, varieties…
Read ReviewMoss Wood 2023 Cabernet Sauvignon – Gary Walsh
I’ve not given it much thought to date, because Moss Wood has been a part of my wine life for many decades, but it just occurred to me that it’s quite an unusual and evocative name for a winery. Anyway, if I stretch my memory back, this maybe puts me…
Read ReviewMoss Wood 2023 Cabernet Sauvignon – Ray Jordan Wine
I’ve been waiting for this wine to be released for some time. I had great expectation that this wonderful vineyard from this exceptional vintage would produce something equally exceptional. Well, guess what? It has. This is such a beautiful example of what Moss Wood cabernet is all about. There’s nothing…
Read ReviewMoss Wood 2023 Cabernet Sauvignon – Edward Agg, The Cellar Post
This is right up there with the best in recent memory. Wonderfully complex on the nose. Blackberries, cassis, raspberry, violets, cedar, tobacco, graphite and pencil shaving, something exotic there too, rummy and clove. Medium-full on the palate, superb detail and elegance. The fruit and spice complexity seems effortless yet intense.…
Read ReviewMoss Wood 2023 Cabernet Sauvignon – Ken Gargett, The Wine Pilot
No doubt many winelovers have been eagerly awaiting this wine, one of the last of Margaret River’s big guns from the stunning 2023 vintage. This brilliant Cabernet saw all parcels harvested fermented separately in small open fermenters. Maturation was in French oak barriques, 15% new. The final blend included 4%…
Read ReviewMoss Wood Ribbon Vale 2023 Cabernet Sauvignon – Ken Gargett, Wine Pilot
Cabernet Sauvignon this Margaret River wine from the Ribbon Vale Vineyard may be, but it is very much the traditional Bordeaux blend, with 2.5% of Merlot, Cabernet Franc, Malbec and Petit Verdot included in the mix. From the 2023 vintage, which continues grow in reputation with every wine released, this…
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Moss Wood 2023 Cabernet Sauvignon – Angus Hughson, Wine Pilot
The 2023 Cabernet Sauvignon is extraordinary. Tasted first from barrel, it was a picture of restrained power and nothing has changed with seamless and perfectly composed aromas of cassis and red currant with a gentle lining of dried herb. This is a wine of elegance, pinpoint balance and precision rather…
Read ReviewMoss Wood 2008 Chardonnay – Ken Gargett, Wine Pilot
A glorious mature Margaret River Chardonnay, this is deep gold in color, offering obvious depth and maturity. The nose exhibits notes of hazelnuts, stewed peaches, honeysuckle, and gunflint. Fully developed and utterly delicious; there is power and intensity, and yet we still have refinement. Immeasurably long, this is finely balanced…
Read ReviewMoss Wood Ribbon Vale 2023 Merlot – Andrew Caillard, The Vintage Journal
Medium deep crimson. Fresh dark plum, redcurrant, cedar, black olive aromas and flavours with herb garden/ star anise notes. A core of sweet fruit with underlying cedar/ fine grainy tannins and hints of vanilla oak. Finishes grippy firm with some sappy notes. Very buoyant and expressive but probably best to…
Read ReviewMoss Wood Ribbon Vale 2023 Cabernet Sauvignon – Andrew Caillard, The Vintage Journal
Medium deep crimson. Attractive cassis, blackberry pastille. dark chocolate aromas with some cedar notes. Inky deep with abundant blackcurrant, blackberry fruits, underlying vanilla, roasted chestnut notes, fine grainy – touch al dente tannins and fresh long tangy acidity. Finishes velvety firm and juicy. Still elemental but lovely richness and volume.…
Read ReviewMoss Wood Ribbon Vale 2025 Elsa – Andrew Caillard, The Vintage Journal
Pale colour. Very attractive waxy, lemon curd, honey aromas with hints marzipan. Supple and minerally with ample waxy, lemon curd, tonic water, touch leafy flavours, looseknit chalky textures, lovely mid-palate volume and fresh long crisp acidity. Some aniseed notes at the finish. Ready to drink. 90% Sauvignon Blanc, 10% Semillon.…
Read ReviewMoss Wood Ribbon Vale 2025 Chardonnay – Andrew Caillard, The Vintage Journal
Pale colour. Fresh tropical fruit, lemon curd, grapefruit aromas with underlying cashew nut, vanilla notes. Well concentrated lemon curd, grapefruit, hint pineapple fruits, fine lacy touch al dente textures and some underlying marzipan, vanilla notes. Finishes crisp and fruity. A very pleasing style. At the middle of fermentation, the wine…
Read ReviewMoss Wood 2023 Cabernet Sauvignon – Andrew Caillard, The Vintage Journal
Deep crimson. Intense blackcurrant, espresso, roasted chestnut aromas with hints of black olive/ spice. Inky deep and generously concentrated with ample cassis, black cherry, mocha flavours, superb roasted chestnut/ marzipan notes, and classical fine-grained tannins. Builds up claret/ cedar firm with a lovely pure black currant plume. The oak is…
Read ReviewMoss Wood Ribbon Vale 2023 Cabernet Sauvignon – Gary Walsh, The Wine Front
Fresh blackberry and mulberry, a little smoked paprika, bay leaf, spice and cedar. It’s medium-bodied, blackberry, mint, black olive and dried herbs, a cranberry freshness to acidity, a hazelnut feel to tannin, with a crisp, nutty and spicy red-fruited finish of very good length. Quite restrained and tight as at…
Read ReviewMoss Wood Ribbon Vale 2023 Merlot – Gary Walsh, The Wine Front
Cherry, plum, olive leaf and oregano, cedar and tobacco, a nutmeg and lemon zest top note. It’s medium-bodied, quite savoury, nutty and earthy, a mix of red and black fruit, plenty of tightly-knit tannin, balanced acidity, with a firm black olive laced finish of excellent length. Quite compact at present…
Read ReviewMoss Wood 2025 Autrement Pinot Noir – Gary Walsh, The Wine Front
Pinot Noir from Karridale. 2025 was a very good vintage for Margaret River. I served this to my partner and asked what it might be. “Is it Grenache or maybe Nebbiolo? It’s not Pinot Noir is it?” And there you have an astute summary of the wine. Cherry, strawberry, orange…
Read ReviewMoss Wood Ribbon Vale 2023 Cabernet Sauvignon – Ray Jordan
Yet another example of how an intense and rigorous concentration on the vineyard is producing such wonderful results these days for Moss Wood. And this is such an elegant and stylish cabernet sauvignon that reflects both that vineyard and the wonderful ’23 vintage. Bright red, energetic fruits on the nose,…
Read ReviewMoss Wood Ribbon Vale 2023 Merlot -Ray Jordan
This vineyard has been producing some of Australia’s best merlots in recent years. This one is perhaps the most refined and elegantly poised of any I can recall. The vintage has clearly played an important part. The nose shows all of those black fruit, spicy, slightly mocha-like characters. While the…
Read ReviewMoss Wood 2025 Autrement Pinot Noir – Ray Jordan
So this is a wine that’s been sourced from further south at Karridale, a region that is far cooler than the Wilyabrup sub-region of Moss Wood. Outremont is French for “another way”, and that explains Moss Wood’s sourcing of pinot from another region. There’s a beautiful perfumed red fruit aroma,…
Read ReviewMoss Wood Ribbon Vale 2025 Chardonnay – Ray Jordan
This vineyard has really been turning out some quite marvellous wines in recent years. It took a bit of work, but the results are in the bottle. This is a beautiful, vibrant, lively chardonnay with that subtle degree of complexity complementing the natural fruit characters. Nutty lemon curd and deeper…
Read ReviewMoss Wood Ribbon Vale 2025 Elsa – Ray Jordan
I’ve been a fan of this wine since it was introduced just a few years ago, and I have to say, this one from what was an excellent season stacks up with any that have yet been released. It’s a largely sauvignon blanc with a small percentage of semillon, varieties…
Read ReviewMoss Wood 2023 Cabernet Sauvignon – Gary Walsh
I’ve not given it much thought to date, because Moss Wood has been a part of my wine life for many decades, but it just occurred to me that it’s quite an unusual and evocative name for a winery. Anyway, if I stretch my memory back, this maybe puts me…
Read ReviewMoss Wood 2023 Cabernet Sauvignon – Ray Jordan Wine
I’ve been waiting for this wine to be released for some time. I had great expectation that this wonderful vineyard from this exceptional vintage would produce something equally exceptional. Well, guess what? It has. This is such a beautiful example of what Moss Wood cabernet is all about. There’s nothing…
Read ReviewMoss Wood 2023 Cabernet Sauvignon – Edward Agg, The Cellar Post
This is right up there with the best in recent memory. Wonderfully complex on the nose. Blackberries, cassis, raspberry, violets, cedar, tobacco, graphite and pencil shaving, something exotic there too, rummy and clove. Medium-full on the palate, superb detail and elegance. The fruit and spice complexity seems effortless yet intense.…
Read ReviewMoss Wood 2023 Cabernet Sauvignon – Ken Gargett, The Wine Pilot
No doubt many winelovers have been eagerly awaiting this wine, one of the last of Margaret River’s big guns from the stunning 2023 vintage. This brilliant Cabernet saw all parcels harvested fermented separately in small open fermenters. Maturation was in French oak barriques, 15% new. The final blend included 4%…
Read ReviewMoss Wood Ribbon Vale 2023 Cabernet Sauvignon – Ken Gargett, Wine Pilot
Cabernet Sauvignon this Margaret River wine from the Ribbon Vale Vineyard may be, but it is very much the traditional Bordeaux blend, with 2.5% of Merlot, Cabernet Franc, Malbec and Petit Verdot included in the mix. From the 2023 vintage, which continues grow in reputation with every wine released, this…
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