Wine Reviews
Moss Wood Ribbon Vale 2023 Merlot – Marc Malouf, Wine Worth Writing About
Deep, dark ruby with a heady nose of violets, black berries and plum, a hint of orange rind, dried thyme, black tea, tobacco, licorice, boot polish, graphite and complex spice. In the mouth it’s rich, muscular and serious with flavours of plum, black cherries, juicy red berries, fig and bay…
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Moss Wood Ribbon Vale 2023 Cabernet Sauvignon – Marc Malouf, Wine Worth Writing About
Crimson with a ruby rim and a lifted nose of lavender, blackberries, cassis, dried currants, white pepper, bay leaf, rosemary and dried sage, cocoa, graphite, pencil shavings and woody spice. In the mouth it’s juicy and easy with ripe blackberry, plum, raspberry, blueberry and blackcurrant at its core, kissed by…
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Moss Wood 2023 Cabernet Sauvignon – Marc Malouf, Wine Worth Writing About
Impenetrable dark crimson with a ruby rim and a complex and serious nose of violets, deep pitched black fruits and berries, panforte, charred meat, leather, pecan pie, tar, cedar, graphite and luxurious spices.Textbook Marg’s Cab! In the mouth it’s full bodied, creamy and elegantly textured with the finest of tannins,…
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Moss Wood 2023 Chardonnay – Julia Harding, Jancis Robinson
Rich aroma of stone fruit, pear and a hint of creamy/mealy oak. Tastes almost sweet on the palate – veering to apricot – even though it is bone dry. The dry, firm and slightly chewy texture brings balance to all that sweet fruit. The oak is finely integrated, the fruit…
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Moss Wood 2022 Cabernet Sauvignon – Richard Hemming, jancisrobinson.com
Tasted blind. Bright ruby. Sweet oak perfume on the nose, with candied black fruit alongside. Opulent, intense but not heavy, there’s a featherweight touch to the tannins and the body. Persistent and pure, drinkable now but the peak is still a good few years away. November 2022
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Moss Wood 2024 Chardonnay – Melissa Moore, The Real Review
Bright gold in the glass, with fresh apricots, vanilla and light cedary oak, with lemon rind, wet pebble and green almond. It’s vibrant and powerful, with zesty acidity, chalky mineral lift and savoury depth, finishing with a precise bitter-peel note that adds to the tension and drive. A confident, layered…
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Moss Wood 2024 Amy’s – Winsor Dobbin, Winsor’s Choice
Calling all lovers of Bordeaux-style red blends. This is cabernet-driven wine from one of Margaret River’s best producers that offers an excellent each way bet: drink now or cellar for a decade or more. It is a blend of 72% cabernet with the remainder of the blend made up of…
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Moss Wood 2025 Amy’s Cuvee Blanc – Sam Kim, Wine Orbit
It’s beautifully scented, with aromas of grapefruit, mango, lemongrass, and crisp apple. It’s refreshing and mouthwatering, delivering a saline texture and vibrant acidity, with a lingering, exuberant finish. A blend of 90% Semillon & 10% Sauvignon Blanc. At its best: now to 2033. October 2025
Read ReviewMoss Wood 2024 Amy’s – Sam Kim, Wine Orbit
Beautifully fruited and fragrant, the bouquet shows blackcurrant, blueberry, fennel, subtle tobacco, and elegant oak aromas. It’s succulent and supple in the mouth, delivering a fleshy texture, fine acidity, and chalky tannins, making it robust and sturdy, with excellent line and length. A blend of 72% Cabernet Sauvignon, 11% Merlot,…
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Moss Wood 2024 Autrement Pinot Noir – Sam Kim, Wine Orbit
Sweetly fruited with savoury nuances, the fragrant bouquet shows dark plum, cured meat, warm mushroom, baking spice, and toasted almond characters, followed by a silky-smooth palate that’s succulent and beautifully weighted. It’s wonderfully structured with refreshing acidity and grainy tannins, finishing lingering and delectable. At its best: 2028 to 2036.…
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Moss Wood 2023 Pinot Noir – Sam Kim, Wine Orbit
It’s seductively expressed on the nose, showing dark cherry, rich floral, clove, porcini, and roasted nut aromas. The palate is equally satisfying with excellent weight, refined texture, and beautifully infused tannins, making it splendidly balanced and persistent with layers of complex flavours. It’s generous and plush, while offering finesse and…
Read ReviewMoss Wood 2024 Chardonnay – Sam Kim, Wine Orbit
This is alluring and enticing on the nose with white-fleshed nectarine, lemon pith, oatmeal, and biscotti characters with a hint of vanilla. The concentrated palate shows fine flow, creamy texture, and perfectly pitched acidity, culminating in an impressively long, expansive finish. Gorgeously poised and harmonious with a long, graceful future.…
Read ReviewMoss Wood 2024 Chardonnay – Gary Walsh, The Wine Front
Well butter me both sides! I reckon this is a better wine than the 2023. Peach, mint slice, lime, lightly toasty cedar oak, cashew and a little spice. It’s bright and juicy, grilled lime and peach, pastry dough, a lively but settled tang to acidity, mint nougat and floral mouth-perfume,…
Read ReviewMoss Wood 2023 Pinot Noir – Erin Larkin, The Wine Advocate
The 2023 Pinot Noir hails from a superb vintage in Margaret River—and indeed, wider Western Australia. It was mild in all respects, and from the hundreds of wines I have tasted from this vintage so far, it seems to have extracted the best of most producers and their vineyards, regardless…
Read ReviewMoss Wood 2024 Autrement Pinot Noir – Melissa Moore, The Real Review
Bright crimson, with inviting aromas of red cherry pie and dusty forest roads. There’s a ripe sweetness on the palate with a line of tangy acidity as backbone, all wrapped in a frame of velvety tannins that grip until the end. Drinks well now and will hold for a few…
Read ReviewMoss Wood 2023 Pinot Noir – Huon Hooke, The Real Review
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…
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Moss Wood 2025 Amy’s Cuvee Blanc – Fergal Gleeson, Great Wine Blog
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.…
Read ReviewMoss Wood 2024 Amy’s – Fergal Gleeson, Great Wine Blog
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
Read ReviewMoss Wood 2024 Amy’s – Gary Walsh, The Wine Front
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,…
Read ReviewMoss Wood 2023 Pinot Noir – Edward Agg, The Cellar Post
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…
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Moss Wood Ribbon Vale 2023 Merlot – Marc Malouf, Wine Worth Writing About
Deep, dark ruby with a heady nose of violets, black berries and plum, a hint of orange rind, dried thyme, black tea, tobacco, licorice, boot polish, graphite and complex spice. In the mouth it’s rich, muscular and serious with flavours of plum, black cherries, juicy red berries, fig and bay…
Read ReviewMoss Wood Ribbon Vale 2023 Cabernet Sauvignon – Marc Malouf, Wine Worth Writing About
Crimson with a ruby rim and a lifted nose of lavender, blackberries, cassis, dried currants, white pepper, bay leaf, rosemary and dried sage, cocoa, graphite, pencil shavings and woody spice. In the mouth it’s juicy and easy with ripe blackberry, plum, raspberry, blueberry and blackcurrant at its core, kissed by…
Read ReviewMoss Wood 2023 Cabernet Sauvignon – Marc Malouf, Wine Worth Writing About
Impenetrable dark crimson with a ruby rim and a complex and serious nose of violets, deep pitched black fruits and berries, panforte, charred meat, leather, pecan pie, tar, cedar, graphite and luxurious spices.Textbook Marg’s Cab! In the mouth it’s full bodied, creamy and elegantly textured with the finest of tannins,…
Read ReviewMoss Wood 2023 Chardonnay – Julia Harding, Jancis Robinson
Rich aroma of stone fruit, pear and a hint of creamy/mealy oak. Tastes almost sweet on the palate – veering to apricot – even though it is bone dry. The dry, firm and slightly chewy texture brings balance to all that sweet fruit. The oak is finely integrated, the fruit…
Read ReviewMoss Wood 2022 Cabernet Sauvignon – Richard Hemming, jancisrobinson.com
Tasted blind. Bright ruby. Sweet oak perfume on the nose, with candied black fruit alongside. Opulent, intense but not heavy, there’s a featherweight touch to the tannins and the body. Persistent and pure, drinkable now but the peak is still a good few years away. November 2022
Read ReviewMoss Wood 2024 Chardonnay – Melissa Moore, The Real Review
Bright gold in the glass, with fresh apricots, vanilla and light cedary oak, with lemon rind, wet pebble and green almond. It’s vibrant and powerful, with zesty acidity, chalky mineral lift and savoury depth, finishing with a precise bitter-peel note that adds to the tension and drive. A confident, layered…
Read ReviewMoss Wood 2024 Amy’s – Winsor Dobbin, Winsor’s Choice
Calling all lovers of Bordeaux-style red blends. This is cabernet-driven wine from one of Margaret River’s best producers that offers an excellent each way bet: drink now or cellar for a decade or more. It is a blend of 72% cabernet with the remainder of the blend made up of…
Read ReviewMoss Wood 2025 Amy’s Cuvee Blanc – Sam Kim, Wine Orbit
It’s beautifully scented, with aromas of grapefruit, mango, lemongrass, and crisp apple. It’s refreshing and mouthwatering, delivering a saline texture and vibrant acidity, with a lingering, exuberant finish. A blend of 90% Semillon & 10% Sauvignon Blanc. At its best: now to 2033. October 2025
Read ReviewMoss Wood 2024 Amy’s – Sam Kim, Wine Orbit
Beautifully fruited and fragrant, the bouquet shows blackcurrant, blueberry, fennel, subtle tobacco, and elegant oak aromas. It’s succulent and supple in the mouth, delivering a fleshy texture, fine acidity, and chalky tannins, making it robust and sturdy, with excellent line and length. A blend of 72% Cabernet Sauvignon, 11% Merlot,…
Read ReviewMoss Wood 2024 Autrement Pinot Noir – Sam Kim, Wine Orbit
Sweetly fruited with savoury nuances, the fragrant bouquet shows dark plum, cured meat, warm mushroom, baking spice, and toasted almond characters, followed by a silky-smooth palate that’s succulent and beautifully weighted. It’s wonderfully structured with refreshing acidity and grainy tannins, finishing lingering and delectable. At its best: 2028 to 2036.…
Read ReviewMoss Wood 2023 Pinot Noir – Sam Kim, Wine Orbit
It’s seductively expressed on the nose, showing dark cherry, rich floral, clove, porcini, and roasted nut aromas. The palate is equally satisfying with excellent weight, refined texture, and beautifully infused tannins, making it splendidly balanced and persistent with layers of complex flavours. It’s generous and plush, while offering finesse and…
Read ReviewMoss Wood 2024 Chardonnay – Sam Kim, Wine Orbit
This is alluring and enticing on the nose with white-fleshed nectarine, lemon pith, oatmeal, and biscotti characters with a hint of vanilla. The concentrated palate shows fine flow, creamy texture, and perfectly pitched acidity, culminating in an impressively long, expansive finish. Gorgeously poised and harmonious with a long, graceful future.…
Read ReviewMoss Wood 2024 Chardonnay – Gary Walsh, The Wine Front
Well butter me both sides! I reckon this is a better wine than the 2023. Peach, mint slice, lime, lightly toasty cedar oak, cashew and a little spice. It’s bright and juicy, grilled lime and peach, pastry dough, a lively but settled tang to acidity, mint nougat and floral mouth-perfume,…
Read ReviewMoss Wood 2023 Pinot Noir – Erin Larkin, The Wine Advocate
The 2023 Pinot Noir hails from a superb vintage in Margaret River—and indeed, wider Western Australia. It was mild in all respects, and from the hundreds of wines I have tasted from this vintage so far, it seems to have extracted the best of most producers and their vineyards, regardless…
Read ReviewMoss Wood 2024 Autrement Pinot Noir – Melissa Moore, The Real Review
Bright crimson, with inviting aromas of red cherry pie and dusty forest roads. There’s a ripe sweetness on the palate with a line of tangy acidity as backbone, all wrapped in a frame of velvety tannins that grip until the end. Drinks well now and will hold for a few…
Read ReviewMoss Wood 2023 Pinot Noir – Huon Hooke, The Real Review
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…
Read ReviewMoss Wood 2025 Amy’s Cuvee Blanc – Fergal Gleeson, Great Wine Blog
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.…
Read ReviewMoss Wood 2024 Amy’s – Fergal Gleeson, Great Wine Blog
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
Read ReviewMoss Wood 2024 Amy’s – Gary Walsh, The Wine Front
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,…
Read ReviewMoss Wood 2023 Pinot Noir – Edward Agg, The Cellar Post
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…
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