Moss Wood 1993 Chardonnay
Wine Facts
| Harvested: | 3/3/1993 |
| Bottled: | 24/1/1994 |
| Released: | 12/4/1994 |
| Yield: | 4.05 t/ha |
| Baume: | 13.60 |
| Alcohol: | 14.50% |
| Vintage Rating: | 9/10 |
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Moss Wood 2023 Chardonnay – Erin Larkin, The Wine Advocate
I often view this wine in the context of the season it was grown. The style of Moss Wood Chardonnay is more consistent than the vintages that birth it, and so it becomes a fascinating lens through which to view the wine each year. The 2023 growing season (which, as…
Moss Wood 2023 Chardonnay – Ken Gargett, Wine Pilot
Amazing to think that Moss Wood’s oldest Chardonnay vines are now 48 years of age. Fermentation for this cracking Chardonnay was finished in 228-litre French oak barriques. The wine was then blended in tank and returned to barrel, with 49% new, for the next year and a half. The colour…
Moss Wood 2023 Chardonnay – Angus Hughson, Wine Pilot
A more refined edition of Moss Wood Chardonnay bursting with sherbet, melon, and citrus tones that are powerful, taut and well integrated with toasty French oak. Bone dry and embryonic, it is highly reserved with a chalky texture while just starting to build nutty, peanut brittle tones. Super young and…
Moss Wood 2021 Chardonnay – Erin Larkin, The Wine Advocate
In October 2021, I stopped in for half a day at Moss Wood and tasted through the Chardonnays (estate and Ribbon Vale) and Cabernets (estate and Ribbon Vale) from barrel, to help me better understand the spectrum of coopers and their impact on the finished wines. So, having looked at…
Moss Wood 2023 Chardonnay – Wine Worth Writing About – Serious
Medium gold with a touch of cyan and a nose of luscious white peach, fresh fig, lemon zest, toasted crumpets with butter and honey, cashew, raw pistachio, vanilla-rich creme brulee and a touch of Sicilian green olive. In the mouth it’s creamy, gently saline, charged with tense acidity and…
Moss Wood 2023 Chardonnay – Fergal Gleeson, Great Wine Blog
The nose tells you that you are in for something complex and delicious. A lightning rod of refreshing acid runs through this wine robed in lime, grapefruit and textured tannins. The Moss Wood house style is traditionally a rich and full bodied Wilyabrup Chardonnay. Perhaps it’s the cooler vintage…
Moss Wood 2023 Chardonnay – Ray Jordan, Ray Jordan Wine
One of the best chardies yet from Moss Wood, and that’s saying something with the quality of wines over the years. The nose is an immediately captivating combo of lemon curd, quince and cashew with just a subtle lift of zest. The palate has a sprightly energy with a crisp…
Moss Wood 2022 Chardonnay – Cassandra Charlick, Decanter
Creamy nougat, with a simmering, flinty minerality and lemon curd on the nose. There’s gentle yet opulent oak spice, a little char and pretty white florals lifting things up to craft an elegant and refined picture. In its youth the oak is still persistent, but time should nestle this further…
Moss Wood 2022 Chardonnay – Jane Faulkner – James Halliday, The Wine Companion
It falls into the big, rich and ripe camp. Bold flavours of dried pears and apricots with some apple compote dusted in warm spices and butter. Lashings of oak, cedary sweet and spicy, which is bolstering the palate even more. It’s a solid wine, and no doubt it has a…
Moss Wood 2021 Chardonnay – Jane Faulkner – James Halliday, The Wine Companion
Fans of bold, rich and ripe chardonnay will relish this wine. Off a cooler vintage, so thankfully there’s plenty of acidity here to offset those full flavours of ripe white peach, mango, and preserved lemon rind with loads of oak adding baking spices and woodsy characters. A hint of butterscotch,…
Tasting Notes
The 1993 Moss Wood Chardonnay has a medium straw colour, peach, pineapple and quince aromas with hints of smokey oak while the palate shows rich, ripe peach, marmalade and butterscotch flavours with overtones of bready barrel-ferment characters. It is lifted by its freshness, is supple, round and full, has an attractive texture and mouthfeel, a tight structure to ensure aging and a firm, clean tannin grip on the long, dry finish.
Vintage Notes
A mild and dry growing season meant that the vines were not subjected to heat stress and carried a good sized crop easily. Moss Wood was, indeed, fortunate to miss a big hail storm in spring which devastated the crop of some of our neighbours. It is not surprising that fruit was good and ripe and the fruit potential became wine quality.
Production Notes
The wine was made according to standard practice at the winery since 1990: it is crushed and drained, then settled for 48 hours after which time the clear juice is racked off and fermented to half way mark in stainless steel and then racked to new oak. The development of secondary characters in the wine, and hence complexity, is encouraged by allowing the wine to undergo a malolactic fermentation and by aging all of it on its lees in new French oak for nine months. The primary characters, especially the natural fruitiness of the Moss Wood Chardonnay, are preserved by only allowing half to go through the malo.
Cellaring Notes
Like other Moss Wood Chardonnays, it can be cellared for up to ten years with confidence. This will enable it to develop greater complexity and concentration of flavour. Optimum drinking 2006.