Moss Wood 2025 Amy’s Cuvée Blanc
| Wine Facts | |
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| Median Harvest Date | 8th March, 2025 |
| Median Harvest Ripeness | 13.3°Be |
| Blend | 91% Semillon 9% Sauvignon Blanc |
| Bottling date | 1st July, 2025 |
| Alcohol | 14.0 % |
Wine Facts
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Median Harvest date
8th March, 2025
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Median Harvest Ripeness
13.3°Be
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Blend
91% Semillon
9% Sauvignon Blanc
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Bottling date
1st, July 2025
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Alcohol
14.0%
Moss Wood 2025 Amy’s Cuvee Blanc – Edward Agg, The Cellar Post
Semillon Sauvignon Blanc here. Wonderful freshness and focus on the nose, granny smiths, peach skins, meadow grasses, guava and underripe pineapple. Textured and nudging, rich on the palate, beautiful acidity, drive and concentration. I’d love to see this with a bit of bottle age. Drink 2025-2035 November, 2025
Moss Wood 2025 Amy’s Cuvee Blanc – Huon Hooke,The Real Review
Light, bright yellow, deeper in colour than most of its age. There is a touch of spicy, toasty oak on the nose that goes with the deeper colour, while the palate is rich and deep, full flavoured and dry with a good backbone of phenolics, the entirety beautifully presented as…
Moss Wood 2025 Amy’s Cuvee Blanc – Ray Jordan, Wine Pilot
A completely new release from Moss Wood, this edition is largely Semillon with a small influence of Sauvignon Blanc. Barrel fermentation adds distinctive texture and complexity. The wine shows a pale, typical colour, while the nose opens with punchy, fragrant, zesty lemon and subtle passion fruit notes. There’s a spicy,…
Moss Wood 2025 Amy’s Cuvee Blanc – Winsor Dobbin, Wine of the Week
Here’s a classic regional blend of semillon and sauvignon blanc from one of the founding wine producers in Margaret River; albeit with a difference. The Moss Wood 2025 Amy’s Cuvée Blanc is a new addition to the range. It is semillon-driven and barrel fermented to add texture and complexity. That…
Moss Wood 2025 Amy’s Cuvee Blanc – Gary Walsh, The Wine Front
A new wine from Moss Wood. 91% Semillon and 9% Sauvignon Blanc. A richer style here offering plenty of flavour, some creaminess and glass to texture, but also has a zip of citrus acidity and spice, with a fine dusty grip to texture. It tastes of pear and apple, some…
Moss Wood 2025 Amy’s Cuvee Blanc – Erin Larkin, The Wine Advocate
The 2025 Amy’s Cuvee Blanc is a Semillon Sauvignon Blanc blend, and in true Moss Wood style, it’s rich and exotic in both shape and feel. Notes of white pineapple and green apple, grass clippings and green peppercorns are threaded together by strands of saline acidity. This is classy. It…
VINTAGE NOTES
The 2025 growing season will be remembered as one of balance and consistency, reminiscent of 1996, 2005 and 2023. Conditions were mild to warm, with steady ripening across all varieties, producing wines of above-average quality and strong varietal character.
Sauvignon Blanc was harvested on 5th March with yields down significantly at 7.76 tonnes per hectare. While the variety proved less productive in 2025, the fruit was highly concentrated, delivering a wine with bright intensity, showing classic gooseberry and tropical fruit notes.
Semillon followed on 12th March, almost exactly on the long-term average timing. Crops were modest at 6.28 tonnes per hectare, around 30% down, but quality was excellent. True to form, the variety ripened evenly and produced wines with lifted aromatics andd freshness.
Together, these parcels have combined to produce a lively, fragrant Amy’s Cuvée Blanc of great concentration and balance.
PRODUCTION NOTES
Both the Semillon and Sauvignon Blanc were hand-picked and delivered to the winery, where they underwent identical vinification. After hand-sorting, the fruit was whole-bunch pressed and the juice clarified by flotation. Fermentation was initiated in stainless steel tanks using a selection of yeast strains, with temperatures carefully controlled and not exceeding 20°C.
At approximately the halfway point of fermentation, the wines were transferred to 225-litre French oak barriques to complete alcoholic fermentation. Upon completion, the wine was treated with sulphur dioxide was added for protection, and returned to barrel for maturation. They remained in oak until 9 June 2025, spending a total of three months in barrique before final blending in stainless steel.
Fining trials were conducted to refine tannin balance, with the final blend treated with isinglass, then bentonite for protein stability. The wine underwent cold stabilisation and sterile filtration before bottling on 1 July 2025.
TASTING NOTES
Colour and Condition:
Pale to medium straw; bright, clear condition.
Nose:
Lifted and fragrant, with lemon zest, grapefruit and ripe pear at the forefront, layered with tropical hints of guava and passionfruit. Subtle notes of fresh-cut hay, flint and delicate vanilla from the short oak maturation add complexity.
Palate:
Crisp and structured, showing generous flavours of citrus and stone fruit alongside gentle tropical notes. Bright acidity provides freshness and length, while creamy texture from barrel fermentation adds weight through the mid-palate. A savoury, lightly nutty oak nuance lingers on the finish, bringing balance and complexity.
CELLARING
Best enjoyed within the first 5 years for its freshness, vibrancy and youthful fruit expression. After this point, the wine will develop some bottle bouquet, with the citrus and tropical notes evolving into richer honeyed, toasty and lanolin characters, offering a more complex, mature drinking experience.