Moss Wood 2005 Pinot Noir
Wine Facts
| Harvested: | 3/2/2005 |
| Bottled: | 2/11/2006 |
| Released: | 7/11/2007 |
| Yield: | 5.35 t/ha |
| Baume: | 13.10 |
| Alcohol: | 13.50% |
| Vintage Rating: | 9/10 |
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Tasting Notes
Deep ruby colour, a complex nose of bright strawberries and dark cherry flavours across the mid and back palate. It has fresh acidity and firm tannins though these are well-balanced by fruit and spicy, charry oak flavours and its weight.
Peter Forrestal’s tasting notes describe the wine as having pretty, lifted aromatics and rich, concentrated and complex, mulberry, black cherry flavours with some gamey, stalky notes; powerful, long and balanced.
Moss Wood 2022 Pinot Noir – Huon Hooke, The Real Review
Margaret River isn’t one of the great pinot noir regions, consequently there are very few made there. This is the best Moss Wood pinot noir I’ve tasted for many years. Youthful red-purple colour, bright and deep. There are cherry, ginger and iodine/peat aromas which are bright and fresh and fruit…
Moss Wood 2022 Pinot Noir – Erin Larkin, The Wine Advocate
The 2022 Pinot Noir leads with cherry and wild strawberry, garden mint (or is it a faint waft of eucalypt, instead?) and caper brine. In the mouth, the wine is silky and almost oily/velvety in its texture, with sweet blood orange, pink peppercorn and raspberry in the mix. This is…
Moss Wood 2022 Pinot Noir – Ken Gargett, Wine Pilot
20% of the fruit went into fermentation as whole bunches, adding in the search for texture and complexity. Maturation was for a year and a half in French oak barrels, 18% new. A pale crimson hue, the nose exhibits a slightly savoury/near rustic style with red fruits, warm earth, aniseed,…
Moss Wood 2022 Pinot Noir – Angus Hughson, Wine Pilot
This charming 2022 Margaret River Pinot Noir is expressive and radiates with cherry pit and rolling tobacco lined with spicy undertones and a generous but well integrated serve of French oak. It then takes a wild turn, with engaging gamey, earthy complexity taking charge with a supple texture and a…
Moss Wood 2022 Pinot Noir – Huon Hooke, The Real Review
Youthful red-purple colour, bright and deep. There are cherry, ginger and iodine/peat aromas which are bright and fresh and fruit driven, while the palate is excitingly intense and bright fruited, with a core of ripe fruit sweetness and assertive but nicely balanced tannin structure. The wine fills out beautifully on…
Moss Wood 2022 Pinot Noir – Wine Worth Writing About – Quality!
Clear ruby with a purple/pink hue and a floral and spiced nose of blossoms, violets, cherries and lush red berries, blood orange and Chinotto, roasted fig leaf, sweet Darjeeling tea, dried mint, vanilla, cassia, forest underbrush and a gentle charred smokiness. In the mouth, you’re met with deliciously ripe, juicy,…
Moss Wood 2022 Pinot Noir – Fergal Gleeson, Great Wine Blog
Moss Wood Pinot Noir 2022 is a delicious and accomplished wine. Lots of ‘pinotosity’ on the nose – strawberry, cherry and florals. Those red fruits flow through on the palate in what is a well balanced wine. Balance? It’s the refreshing, bright acid and fine smooth tannins that accompany the…
Moss Wood 2022 Pinot Noir – Ray Jordan, Ray Jordan Wine
Pinot in Margaret River remains an enigma. Yet when you get good years it works well. The generosity of the ’22 vintage is captured in this pretty and powerful pinot. Wild raspberry and cherry notes with a subtle spice. The palate is deeply intense but delivers a light effortless touch….
Moss Wood 2021 Pinot Noir – Jane Faulkner – James Halliday, The Wine Companion
Vibrant and lively, full of red flowers and redcurrants, black cherries and dried raspberry powder with some red lollies too. The palate is tight, a little lean, yet full of sweet fruit and puckering acidity, which does temper the slight bitter green edge to the tannins. It has an appeal….
Moss Wood 2020 Pinot Noir – Erin Larkin, The Wine Advocate
The 2020 Pinot Noir is concentrated and red fruited, with berries and garden mint. The mint character feels like a vineyard characteristic to me, as I see it so often in the wines, and it sits so well within the red fruit character of the wine, which includes red cherries,…
Vintage Notes
The 2005 growing season in Margaret River was great and so we have high hopes for the pinot noir.
The vineyard management program applied the usual rigour so necessary with this variety. Yields were very good and so aggressive that bunch thinning was necessary to get the crop down to the required level of between 2 and 3 tonnes per acre and hand leaf removal maximised fruit exposure.
Production Notes
The winemaking approach followed traditional practice at Moss Wood. The grapes were destemmed into open tanks, with 5% of bunches being included uncrushed. Longterm readers of the newsletter would know that 15 years ago 50% of bunches were uncrushed. The consequent characters derived from stalks are no longer considered a desirable character either in Burgundy or Margaret River central - except to provide some subliminal background complexity. The wine was aged for 20 months in new (33%) and used oak before being racked into tank where it was sterile filtered (but not fined) before bottling on 3rd November 2006.
Cellaring Notes
Given the quality of the vintage, we see this as being an excellent wine and using the historical tasting of November 2006 as our guide, we recommend a minimum cellaring time of 10 years. During this time it will gradually soften and become more complex, showing Pinot Noir’s earthy, mushroom and meaty notes. Given the staying power exhibited by the 1985, we think the 2005 will age quite comfortably to 20 years of age for those who are really keen on cellaring.