Moss Wood: 2023 Cabernet Sauvignon Launch, Incl. a Six-Vintage Vertical - 3 & 4 May
With 2001, 2018 and 2023 being the region’s great Cabernet years,
Moss Wood Launch their 2023 Cabernet Sauvignon
alongside 13 more Moss Woods… highlighted by
a 6 Vintage Cabernet Sauvignon Vertical
going back to the rare - and Margaret River vinous history museum wine - 2001.
“Home of WA’s most loved $100+ Cabernet Sauvignon…”
John Jens
Tasting the highly anticipated 2023 Cabernet Sauvignon
alongside the accoladed 2022 | 2021 vintages
&….
rare museum vintages of 2017 | 2013 | 2001
Hosted by Moss Wood’s Mugford Family – Owners & Winemakers
Sunday May 3rd
Lunch:12-3pm, 14 Wines & 5 Courses $285
Masterclass: 4-6pm, 14 Wines with nibbles $185
Dinner: 6:30pm, 14 Wines with 5 Courses $285
Monday May 4th
Masterclass: 5:30-7pm, 14 Wines with nibbles $185
Dinner: 7:30pm, 14 Wines with 5 Courses $285
Chardonnay & Merlot Accolades:
The 2017 Wilyabrup Margert River Chardonnay
This is a truly beautiful chardonnay, seamless perfection
from the first sip. It is liquid gold.”
99 Points, James Halliday’s
2020 Wine Companion Chardonnay of the Year,
James Halliday’s 2020 Halliday Wine Companion Awards & …
99 Points, James Halliday’s Top 100, The Australian, November 2018
Matthew Jukes Top 100 Australian Wines 2019 & 2020
2021 Wilyabrup Margaret River Chardonnay,
“This is the very best Moss Wood Chardonnay I have seen for a very long time.
This sits with the finest the region can offer.”
98 Points, Ken Gargett, Wine Pilot
2016 Ribbon Vale Merlot,
“The best Australian Merlot I've tasted.”
98 Points, James Halliday’s Top 100, The Australian, November 2018
2020 Ribbon Vale Merlot
The combination of sweet red fruit with a chalky tannin wrap creates
such a perfect expression of the variety
98 Points & Merlot of the Year, Ray Jordan’s WA Wine Review 2024
Cabernet Accolades:
2014 Cabernet Sauvignon.
“… is as close to perfect as any Margaret River has produced
– and it gets my highest-ever score –
the best Moss Wood cabernet yet and a drop that I award my highest-ever score.”
“A truly great wine and the best ever to come out of this magical region.
99 Points, Ray Jordan In a 2017 Saturday’s The West Australian.
2016 Cabernet Sauvignon,
99 Points & 2021 Cabernet Sauvignon of the Year,
James Halliday’s 2021 Halliday Wine Companion Awards
2018 Cabernet Sauvignon
After two 10 wine verticals, I believe that the Mugford family are
correct in saying that this is their greatest Cabernet Sauvignon to date.
Ray Jordan’s Wine of the Year & Red Wine of the Year
– West Australian Wine Guide 2022
2020 Cabernet Sauvignon
The palate, oh the palate, is simply a joy. Smooth graceful lines with fine
chalky tannins supply essential definition and support and harmoniously played
oak. It is a wine destined for even greater things. Extraordinary.
99 Points, Ray Jordan, rayjordan.com.au
99 Points & Runner Up for Wine of the Year Ray Jordan’s
WA Wine Review 2024
Cabernet Sauvignon 2021
Tyson Stelzer Top 250 Wines of 2024
One of Australia’s great cabernets…
98 Points, Ray Jordan, rayjordanwine.com
“For nearly 50 years it has risen to the very highest levels of
Australian red wine, with current winemaker and owner Keith Mugford
continuing to take it into the rarefied air shared by Australia’s greatest wines.”
Ray Jordan Wine Reviews, Business News 2023.
The Wine List & Menu
First Course
Moss Wood Semillon 2024, Our Price $34
“This is a slightly fuller style than previously. Perhaps a product of the warmer vintage or an indication of a somewhat new direction for the variety. Regardless, it retains the essential linear mouthfeel and intensity of lemon zest and citrus. A crisp zingy acid sustains the long finish—an immediately appealing wine still with cellaring potential.”
94 Points, Ray Jordan
Moss Wood Amy's Vineyard Cuvée Blanc 2025, Our Price $32
Moss Wood Ribbon Vale Elsa 2025 (Launch), Our Price $71
Jamon, olives, sourdough
Second Course
Moss Wood Ribbon Vale Chardonnay 2025 (Launch), Our Price $74
Moss Wood’s 2025 Ribbon Vale Vintage Report:
“…the season was defined by consistency rather than extremes. Favourable spring conditions established solid yields, followed by a mild summer that allowed for steady, uninterrupted ripening. Rainfall was sufficient to support vine function without compromising concentration, and harvest timings were closely aligned with long-term averages. The wines show good balance and structure, in line with what we would expect from these conditions.”
Moss Wood Chardonnay 2024, Our Price $99
“One of Margaret River’s benchmark chardonnays, and this release from a warm vintage is exceptional. It's fine and delicately poised, yet with regional DNA driving it through to a powerful, sustained finish. Aromas of lemon meringue, brioche and light florals lead into a palate of chalky, savoury elements alongside vanillin and lemony notes. Fine, precise acidity lifts the flavours through to the long finish. An outstanding wine.”
97 Points, Ray Jordan
Grilled prawns, tomato and basil salsa
Third Course
Moss Wood Amy's Vineyard 2024, Our Price $32
Moss Wood Ribbon Vale Merlot 2022, Our Price $71
Merlot of the Year, 2026 WA Wine Review
“A lot of work was put into rejuvenating this vineyard when Moss acquired it, and it has certainly paid off handsomely with merlot in particular. It’s now recognised as one of Australia’s consistently best. This is another cracker combining the suppleness of the fruit with power and poise. You are getting a serious red wine here with deeply concentrated fruit impelled through to a very long finish. Firm tannins give this structure.”
96 Points, Ray Jordan
“… Wow. This is excellent, just sheer elegance.”
95 Points, Erin Larkin, Robert Parker
95 Points, Jane Faulkner, Halliday Wine Companion
Moss Wood Ribbon Vale Cabernet Sauvignon 2022, Our Price $71
97 Points, Huon Hooke, The Real Review
96 Points, Ray Jordan
“… For such a youthful cabernet, this is perfectly pitched and composed. A delight to drink now, so I did, all thanks to the neat combo of cassis, mulberries, fresh herbs and oak spices. Nothing out of place. The medium-weighted palate reveals its elegance thanks to fine tannins and a level of detail we come to expect from this producer, and thus not disappointing.”
96 Points, Jane Faulkner, Halliday Wine Companion
Gnocchi, broad beans, lemon, curd
Fourth Course
Moss Wood Cabernet Sauvignon 2023 (Launch), Our Price $144
Moss Wood Cabernet Sauvignon 2022, Our Price $144
“…This has the refined elegance and prettiness that is the Moss Wood DNA… So well balanced. A wine of immense charm and appeal. I defy you to stop after the first sip.”
98 Points, Ray Jordan
“… It's a wine for the future, although it drinks very well now.”
97+ Points, Erin Larkin, Robert Parker
“When you’re the flagship, there’s always pressure because you must be the best of the best. Well, take a bow. This harnesses all the power of fruit and winemaking, all seemingly effortlessly, and turns it into an elegant, stunning wine balancing savouriness with fruit… Excellent now and with decades ahead of it. Oh and another accolade, this represents the 50th vintage of the wine. Take another bow.”
97 Points, Jane Faulkner, Halliday Wine Companion
Moss Wood Cabernet Sauvignon 2021, Our Price $144
“One of Australia’s great cabernets... A deceptive medium bodied wine that will cellar for many years.”
97 Points, Ray Jordan
“The Moss Wood Cabernet Sauvignon is always one of Margaret River’s best and this latest release is no exception... An elegant style, there is good energy here, with serious focus and an immaculate balance, as well as a lovely lingering finish. The palate sees more chocolate and cherry notes emerging. Silky tannins and very good length. Drink over the next ten to twenty years.”
97 Points, Ken Gargett, Wine Pilot
“There’s as much a Moss Wood DNA thumbprint as a regional one here... Rather lovely now but will garner more complexity in time.
96 Points, Jane Faulkner, Halliday Wine Companion
“The wine is elegant and refined and looks better today than it did on release. Everything here suggests it will continue to improve in bottle over time, justifying the "+" after the score.”
95+ Points, Erin Larkin, Robert Parker
Angus a la minute, sambal butter, leafy greens
Firth Course
Moss Wood Cabernet Sauvignon 2017, Our Price $242
“The latest Moss Wood captures this vintage perfectly and is without doubt one of the more restrained and tightly framed Moss Woods of recent years. … it retains the elegance, perfume and soft approachability that is Moss Wood. And hidden within is a wine that I suspect will still be drinking beautifully in 30 years.”
97 Points, Ray Jordan
“A stunning wine in the making. It’s all about potential. Must cellar for best results.”
96 Points, Huon Hooke, The Real Review
“The 2017 vintage is responsible for cabernets of incredible poise and layering. This is not a thundering power piece, rather an intricately detailed and mesmerising wine, with fine folds of flavour... This is pure, floral, pretty, and very long. Moss Wood has proven its capability for graceful ageing and this will be no exception.
96 Points, Erin Larkin, Halliday Wine Companion
Moss Wood Cabernet Sauvignon 2013, Our Price $242
“A powerful, full-bodied cabernet that still manages to achieve finesse thanks to the perfect balance of fruit, oak and tannins. An autocratic portrait of cabernet, and of photographic reality.”
97 Points, James Halliday, The Wine Companion
Moss Wood Cabernet Sauvignon 2001, Our Price $294
“Keith and Clare have long believed … till the 2018 … that this was their greatest Cabernet Sauvignon
… and most locked on long term Moss Wood zealots, myself included, agree. And now this 2023 comes along…”
- JJ (John Jens)
“Spotlessly clean, this is a gorgeous, silky wine flooded with redcurrant, cassis and blackcurrant fruit in a web of fine tannins. Elegance personified, the screwcap guaranteeing a very long life.”
96 Points, James Halliday, The Wine Companion