1998 Moss Wood Cabernet Sauvignon

  • 1998 Moss Wood Cabernet Sauvignon
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The 1998 Moss Wood Cabernet Sauvignon from Margaret River earned 94 points from James Halliday.

The bouquet offers a complex array of blackberry, earth, spice and oak; the palate powerful savoury, earthy fruit with persistent tannins, fractionally sweetened by the deft handling of French oak. - James Halliday, Halliday Wine Companion (94 pts)

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Critic Reviews

94 Points - James Halliday, Halliday Wine Companion

“The bouquet offers a complex array of blackberry, earth, spice and oak, the palate powerful savoury/earthy fruit with persistent tannins, fractionally sweetened by the deft handling of French oak. (Drink by 2013)”

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2000

  • 96Huon Hooke, The Real Review

$265.00

Very deep, youthful colour presages an impressively young, concentrated, powerful cabernet which displays very ripe fru…

— Huon Hooke, The Real Review

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2002

95.0 Average Critic Rating
  • 96Huon Hooke, Gourmet Traveller Wine
  • 95Jeremy Oliver, Oliver's Wines
  • 94Tyson Stelzer, tysonstelzer.com

$265.00

A much lighter, more elegant wine than the whopper ’01, this is a beautiful, subtle, cool-year cabernet full of raspber…

— Huon Hooke, Gourmet Traveller Wine

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2003

94.5 Average Critic Rating
  • 96Jeremy Oliver, Oliver's Wines
  • 93Jamie Goode, The Wine Anorak

$265.00

Luxuriantly smooth, this deeply fragrant, firmly structured, plush and seamless wine marries deep, ripe fruit with supe…

— Jeremy Oliver, Oliver's Wines

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2004

95.5 Average Critic Rating
  • 96Ray Jordan, The West Australian
  • 95James Halliday, Wine Companion

$265.00

The newly released Moss Wood cabernet sauvignon 2004 is one of the bigger and more robust Moss Wood cabernets, largely …

— Ray Jordan, The West Australian

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2005

97.5 Average Critic Rating
  • 98Huon Hooke, The Real Review
  • 97 Andrew Graham, Australian Wine Review

$265.00

Deepish red colour with a trace of brick on the rim. The bouquet is smoky, savoury and oak-kissed, with a nutty mellown…

— Huon Hooke, The Real Review

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2007

95.0 Average Critic Rating
  • 95Neal Martin, Wine Advocate
  • 95Huon Hooke, The Real Review

$246.00

This is an outstanding Cabernet Sauvignon from Moss Wood. It is a very complex, multi-faceted nose with blackberry, a t…

— Neal Martin, Wine Advocate

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2011

95.7 Average Critic Rating
  • 96Bob Campbell, The Real Review
  • 96James Suckling, jamessuckling.com
  • 95Lisa Perrotti-Brown, Wine Advocate

$220.00

Very impressive Cabernet - both in terms of concentration and complexity. Layers of dark berry flavours with spice/anis…

— Bob Campbell, The Real Review

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2013

96.7 Average Critic Rating
  • 97James Halliday, Wine Companion
  • 97Bob Campbell MW, The Real Review
  • 96James Suckling, jamessuckling.com

$265.00

Hand-picked, destemmed to open fermenters with cultured yeast, 7 days fermentation and 7 days post-ferment maceration, …

— James Halliday, Wine Companion

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2014

97.3 Average Critic Rating
  • 99Ray Jordan, rayjordan.com.au
  • 97Jane Faulkner, Wine Companion
  • 96James Suckling, jamessuckling.com

$266.00

This is such a classic Moss Wood. As elegant and stylishly poised as any I have tasted through the years. Red berry and…

— Ray Jordan, rayjordan.com.au

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2016

96.0 Average Critic Rating
  • 99James Halliday, Halliday Wine Companion
  • 95James Suckling, James Suckling
  • 94Gary Walsh, The Wine Front

$265.00

Includes 5% petit verdot and 4% cabernet franc, hand-picked, destemmed, open-fermented, 14 days on skins, matured in Fr…

— James Halliday, Halliday Wine Companion

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2017

95.0 Average Critic Rating
  • 96James Halliday, Halliday Wine Companion
  • 96James Suckling, James Suckling
  • 93Gary Walsh, The Wine Front

$265.00

From 51yo vines, 88/8/4% cabernet sauvignon/petit verdot/cabernet franc. Matured for 29 months in French oak (15% new).…

— James Halliday, Halliday Wine Companion

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2018

96.0 Average Critic Rating
  • 98James Halliday, Halliday Wine Companion
  • 96James Suckling, James Suckling
  • 94Gary Walsh, The Wine Front

$266.00

92/4/4% cabernet sauvignon/petit verdot/cabernet franc. Hand picked from 52yo vines, matured for 29 months in French oa…

— James Halliday, Halliday Wine Companion

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2021

94.0 Average Critic Rating
  • 96James Halliday, Halliday Wine Companion
  • 94Angus Hughson, Vinous
  • 92Gary Walsh, The Wine Front
  • 96Jane Faulkner, Wine Companion

$127.00

There's as much a Moss Wood DNA thumbprint as a regional one here. This shows off violets, cedary/toasty oak (thankfull…

— James Halliday, Halliday Wine Companion

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2022

96.0 Average Critic Rating
  • 97Erin Larkin, Wine Advocate
  • 96Gary Walsh, The Wine Front
  • 96James Suckling, James Suckling
  • 95Angus Hughson, Vinous

$129.00

I taste in batches of six, pouring each glass, gassing the bottles and working my way through the flight. Today, this 2…

— Erin Larkin, Wine Advocate

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2023

97.0 Average Critic Rating
  • 99Ray Jordan, rayjordan.com.au
  • 99Ken Gargett, Wine Pilot
  • 99Marc Malouf , Wine Worth Writing About

$153.00

I've been waiting for this wine to be released for some time. I had great expectation that this wonderful vineyard from…

— Ray Jordan, rayjordan.com.au

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Wine Details & Information

Vintage: 1998

Varietal / Style: Cabernet Sauvignon

Producer: Moss Wood

Country: Australia

Region: Margaret River

Bottle size (ml): 750ml