Moss Wood 1992 Cabernet Sauvignon

Wine Facts

Harvested: 25/3/1992
Bottled: 22/9/1993
Released: 14/7/1994
Yield: 10.00 t/ha
Baume: 12.80
Alcohol: 12.50%
Vintage Rating: 7/10

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Moss Wood 2022 Cabernet Sauvignon – Ciao Magazine, Winsor Dobbin

If you have a special occasion to celebrate, or someone who deserves a treat then this excellent Bordeaux-style blend would be an excellent choice if you have cash to splash. From one of the best producers in Margaret River this is a complex and rewarding wine that would grace any dinner party. Think complexity, intensity,…

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I taste in batches of six, pouring each glass, gassing the bottles and working my way through the flight. Today, this 2022 Cabernet Sauvignon was poured in glass number five, and so it has had some time to breathe. Upon pouring, the nose was so abundantly, luxuriatingly steeped in graphite, fresh lead pencil (a smell…

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Moss Wood 2022 Cabernet Sauvignon – Cassandra Charlick, Decanter

Still a baby of a wine, tightly bundled, but goodness: the presence is there. Toasty oak wraps the fruit, yet it’s well matched to the power of 2022. Red fruit laced with aniseed, a graphite through line and warm spice – just a pinch of vanilla. The palate is like lifting the gate to a…

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Exceptional purity to the 2022 Moss Wood Cabernet Sauvignon as it radiates with blackcurrant, warm slate, gravel and earthy aromas.  It is a fuller-flavoured vintage but retains the estate signature of finesse with powerful, sweet cassis and red earth flavours with a not unwelcome touch of mint. Mid weight and stylish while pliable tannins hold…

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Medium deep crimson. Attractive cassis, truffle, vanilla aromas with hints of mocha/ cedar. Inky deep with fresh blackcurrant vanilla, espresso flavours, fine grainy tannins and well-integrated vanilla/ marzipan notes. Finishes chalky and long with chinotto and aniseed notes. A classic Moss Wood vintage with lovely richness, definition and mineral length. Should last the distance. A…

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Moss Wood 2022 Cabernet Sauvignon – Ray Jordan Wine

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Moss Wood 2022 Cabernet Sauvignon – The Cellar Post

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Moss Wood 2022 Cabernet Sauvignon – Gary Walsh, Wine Front

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Moss Wood 2021 Cabernet Sauvignon – Matthew Jukes

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Moss Wood 2014 Cabernet Sauvignon – Erin Larkin, The Wine Advocate

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Moss Wood 2021 Cabernet Sauvignon – Erin Larkin, The Wine Advocate

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Moss Wood 2021 Cabernet Sauvignon – Tyson Stelzer, Top 250 Wines of 2024

A singularity of black- and redcurrant and cassis defines a monumental Moss Wood of stellar definition and endurance, yet somehow at the same time alluringly silky, slippery and polished to the nth degree. Super-fine tannins unite top shelf fruit with classy oak structure, impeccably resolved, carrying a finish of effortless line and length. Drink 2031-2051…

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Tasting Notes

The 1992 Moss Wood Cabernet Sauvignon has lifted, redcurrant and spicy oak characters with a hint of cinnamon, long rich, mulberry flavours, some earthiness and well-integrated, soft tannins. The wine has a lively mouth feel, complexity, fresh acidity and some smokey oak on the finish.

Although not as round, generous or intense as the outstanding 1990 and 1991 vintages, it is soft, has good length, some complexity and attractive, mulberry flavours on the palate. We like the wine but believe that it will get better with age and will rate more highly than it does now, as has happened with the 1984 and 1989 Cabernets. Incidentally, we see it as more intense and concentrated than either of those two wines. As well as this, we believe that Moss Wood has benefited from the experience of difficult years such as 1989 and 1982 and is now better equipped to pick riper grapes in vintages like those. Most importantly, the vineyard is showing the value of twenty year old vines.

The 1992 Cabernet was awarded a gold medal at the 1994 International Wine Challenge conducted by the British magazine, Wine.

Vintage Notes

The 1992 vintage for cabernet sauvignon at Moss Wood was unusual in that it was a harvest in two halves. Picking of the Cabernet Franc began on March 12 and was followed by heavy downpours for a week during which 75 millimetres of rain fell. After this, there was a break for a week and then the first of the Cabernet Sauvignon was picked. Further rain halted the harvesting and there was another week's break before picking could commence once again.

Fear that the Cabernet would suffer proved groundless and, in spite of the unusually heavy rainfall during vintage, the vines had no problems achieving full ripeness. Our patience was rewarded and this wine has the richness of structure that consumers have come to expect from Moss Wood Cabernets.

Cellaring Notes

As with most young Cabernets from the vineyard, there is sufficient fruit for the wine to be enjoyed before five years of age, although it will be at its best after ten years cellaring.