Moss Wood 1993 Chardonnay

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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 a reminder, contains the spring…

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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 here is a deep but…

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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 tightly wound, this is a…

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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 this wine two years ago,…

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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 textured with furry tannins that…

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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 but the 2023 has a…

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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 chalky acidity sustaining and focussing…

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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 into a fruit core of…

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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 fan base. August, 2024  

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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, creamy nutty lees and the…

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Moss Wood 2022 Chardonnay – Erin Larkin, The Wine Advocate

The 2022 Chardonnay leads with a nose redolent of white chocolate praline, roasted/salted/crushed cashews, orange oil, vanilla pod and wafer. In the mouth, the phenolics serve to almost balance the opulent fruit; this is a huge, pillowy wine of substance and volume. It tastes the way custard cooking on the stove smells, warming, soft and…

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Moss Wood Ribbon Vale 2023 Chardonnay – Ray Jordan, Ray Jordan Wine

A recent addition to the Moss Wood portfolio showing the great strides that have been taken in managing the Ribbon Vale vineyard. This is probably the best release yet. It was a superb season and its shows in a wine of elegance and refinement, yet with layered complexity and sophistication. Nice lemon scents yield to…

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WA Wine Review 2024

Ray Jordan “Moss Wood is a family-owned wine company and a pioneer of the Margaret River region. Planted in 1969, Moss Wood is an important founding estate of Margaret River. Clare and Keith Mugford, as viticulturalists, winemakers and proprietors, have been tending the vineyard and making wine at Moss Wood since 1984 and 1979, respectively….

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Moss Wood 2022 Chardonnay – Ray Jordan, Ray Jordan Wine

Another cracking good chardonnay from Moss Wood. The aroma is immediately engaging with a floral lemon scent and a slight vanilla bean essence. Subtle cut lime and pear edge into add some further complexity. The palate is a powerful statement with a deeply intense creamy stone fruit and edgy lemon rind combination working together. Gathers…

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Moss Wood 2022 Chardonnay – Fergal Gleeson, Great Wine Blog

The Moss Wood house style is rich and at the complex end of the Margaret River spectrum. Sourced from the historic Wilyabrup estate vineyard, there is no attempt to force a lean or mineral Chardonnay from the site. It’s full bodied but shapely.  Lime and nectarine fruit flavours, marmalade and roasted almonds are all on…

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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.