2022 Moss Wood Cabernet Sauvignon

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Moss Wood

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Average Critic Score: 96.0/100 based on 4 critic reviews

"Moss Wood Cabernet Sauvignon is one of the blue blood classics of Australia. Regardless of the vintage conditions, they are a pleasure to drink at almost any stage of their development."  James Halliday

"A wine of immense charm and appeal. I defy you to stop after the first sip." 
Ray Jordan

"Stunning. Utterly seamless and seductive. A superb Cabernet." 
Ken Gargett

"A classic Moss Wood vintage with lovely richness, definition and mineral length."  Andrew Caillard

"Here we have a classic Moss Wood. It’s a powerhouse. Outstanding."
 Gary Walsh

Medium deep crimson. Attractive cassis, truffle, vanilla aromas with hints of mocha/ cedar. Inky deep with fresh blackcurrant vanilla, espresso flavours, fine grainy tannins and well-integrated vanilla/ marzipan notes. Finishes chalky and long with chinotto and aniseed notes. A classic Moss Wood vintage with lovely richness, definition and mineral length. Should last the distance. A lovely 50th anniversary wine. 94% cabernet sauvignon 4% cabernet franc 2% petit verdot. Drink: 2028 – 2035.

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Critic Reviews

97 Points - Erin Larkin, Wine Advocate

“I taste in batches of six, pouring each glass, gassing the bottles and working my way through the flight. Today, this 2022 Cabernet Sauvignon was poured in glass number five, and so it has had some time to breathe. Upon pouring, the nose was so abundantly, luxuriatingly steeped in graphite, fresh lead pencil (a smell so potent and specific and good), forest floor and pure, summer raspberry. After 20 minutes or so in the glass, the oak has begun to recede, and the fruit is swelling up. The 2022 season in Margaret River was warm, dry and early, and the quality of the Cabernets (particularly) was stellar. While the oak is a feature at this stage, the fruit is so sensationally poised and powerful that this will be a super superstar in the decades to come. This is one of Australia's most collected/cellared premium wines for a reason. 14% alcohol, sealed under screw cap.”

96 Points - Gary Walsh, The Wine Front

“94% Cabernet Sauvignon, 4% Cabernet Franc, 2% Petit Verdot. Here we have a classic Moss Wood Cabernet, and maybe, though don't mind me, it puts me in mind of the 2001 for richness and presence. It's a powerhouse Cabernet and classic Moss Wood in terms of intensity and regal carriage. Black fruit, dried cranberry, cedar, nutmeg, dried flower perfume, tobacco, and damp earth. It sweeps though the palate with grilled nuts, toast, fresh blackberry, a whole lot of sweet grainy tannin and black tea perfume, acidity is balanced and present, and the finish thunders and goes very long. Quite a wine. Outstanding. (Drink between 2028-2044) Original score: 96+ points”

96 Points - James Suckling, James Suckling

“Plush, perfumed aromas of red and black currants, black cherries, spices, graphite, purple flowers, crushed blackberries and violets. Finely tuned tannins and bright acidity lead into a midweight, fruit-driven palate with almost silky texture and no heaviness. Tightly wound with some early-drinking generosity and plenty of polish. 92% cabernet sauvignon, 4% petit verdot and 4% cabernet franc. Excellent. Drink or hold. Screw cap.”

95 Points - Angus Hughson, Vinous

“The 2022 Cabernet Sauvignon radiates exceptional purity, offering blackcurrant, warm slate, gravel and earthy aromas. This is a fuller-flavored vintage, yet it retains the estate signature of finesse, with powerful sweet cassis and red earth flavors complemented by a not unwelcome touch of mint. Mid weight and stylish, the wine's pliable tannins hold the dark berry flavors firm and controlled over an extended finish in a package where overall length and balance are exceptional. (Drink between 2023-2048)”

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1992

  • 91James Halliday, Halliday Wine Companion

$280.00

Medium to full purple-red; the bouquet is clean, of medium intensity with sweet blackcurrant and redcurrant fruits, and…

— James Halliday, Halliday Wine Companion

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1994

93.0 Average Critic Rating
  • 94James Halliday, Halliday Wine Companion
  • 92Robert M. Parker, Jr., Wine Advocate

$280.00

Strong red-purple; much more concentration and depth than the '93, with dark fruits and gently earthy overtones. The pa…

— James Halliday, Halliday Wine Companion

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1995

95.5 Average Critic Rating
  • 96James Halliday, Halliday Wine Companion
  • 95Erin Larkin, Wine Advocate

$280.00

Medium to full purple-red; a smooth gently sweet-textured bouquet with that very special character of Moss Wood, a part…

— James Halliday, Halliday Wine Companion

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1996

92.67 Average Critic Rating
  • 93James Halliday, Halliday Wine Companion
  • 93Robert M. Parker, Jr., Wine Advocate
  • 92Wine Spectator

$280.00

Medium to full red-purple; a concentrated bouquet with soft, berry and earth flavours supported by subtle oak is, like …

— James Halliday, Halliday Wine Companion

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1997

88.0 Average Critic Rating
  • 89Robert M. Parker, Jr., Wine Advocate
  • 88James Halliday, Halliday Wine Companion
  • 87Stephen Tanzer, Vinous

$280.00

This is a beautifully elegant offering.

— Robert M. Parker, Jr., Wine Advocate

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1998

  • 94James Halliday, Halliday Wine Companion

$295.00

The bouquet offers a complex array of blackberry, earth, spice and oak, the palate powerful savoury/earthy fruit with p…

— James Halliday, Halliday Wine Companion

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1999

94.0 Average Critic Rating
  • 94Campbell Mattinson, The Wine Front
  • 94Huon Hooke, The Real Review

$295.00

It's a beautiful wine. Complex, silken, syrupy and persistent. Concentrated olive and blackcurrant fruit flavour, match…

— Campbell Mattinson, The Wine Front

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2000

  • 96Huon Hooke, The Real Review

$295.00

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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2001

94.25 Average Critic Rating
  • 96James Halliday, Halliday Wine Companion
  • 96Gary Walsh, The Wine Front
  • 93Josh Raynolds, Vinous
  • 92Robert M. Parker, Jr., Wine Advocate

$295.00

Spotlessly clean, this is a gorgeous, silky wine flooded with redcurrant, cassis and blackcurrant fruit in a web of fin…

— James Halliday, Halliday Wine Companion

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2002

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

$295.00

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

$295.00

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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2006

93.33 Average Critic Rating
  • 95Bob Campbell, The Real Review
  • 93Josh Raynolds, Vinous
  • 92Gary Walsh, The Wine Front

$265.00

An elegant rather than blockbuster red with aromatic floral and red berry characters. What it lacks in intensity it mor…

— Bob Campbell, 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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2008

94.0 Average Critic Rating
  • 96James Halliday, Wine Companion
  • 94Josh Raynolds, Vinous
  • 92Gary Walsh, The Wine Front

$265.00

Strong, healthy red-purple; a distinguished vintage for this Margaret River blue blood wine, medium-bodied but with inn…

— James Halliday, Wine Companion

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2009

93.0 Average Critic Rating
  • 95James Halliday, Halliday Wine Companion
  • 91Campbell Mattinson, The Wine Front

$266.00

Positive red-purple colour; in the mainstream of Moss Wood style: supple, round and impeccably balanced, yet with regal…

— James Halliday, Halliday Wine Companion

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2010

96.0 Average Critic Rating
  • 98Bob Campbell, The Real Review
  • 97Huon Hooke, The Real Review
  • 96James Halliday, Halliday Wine Companion
  • 93Josh Raynolds, Vinous

$266.00

Bright, intense and fruity red with a mix of blackberry, cedar, chocolate and spicy oak flavours. Powerful red that sho…

— Bob Campbell, The Real Review

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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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2012

95.75 Average Critic Rating
  • 98James Halliday, Wine Companion
  • 96James Suckling, JamesSuckling.com
  • 95Campbell Mattinson, The Wine Front
  • 94Josh Raynolds, Vinous

$220.00

The high quality vintage shines through this wine, illuminating its intricate multifaceted complexity; almost, but not …

— James Halliday, Wine Companion

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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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2015

95.0 Average Critic Rating
  • 97James Halliday, Wine Companion
  • 95Josh Raynolds, Vinous
  • 93Mike Bennie, The Wine Front

$265.00

The bouquet shows the first signs of development via nuances of spice and earth. The palate is still bracing and fresh,…

— James Halliday, Wine Companion

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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

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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  • Free click and collect from 12 Station Street, Cottesloe. Orders placed before 12pm are usually ready the same day.
  • Australia-wide: $20 flat rate with Australia Post, or Express from $75.

Wine Details & Information

Vintage: 2022

Varietal / Style: Cabernet Sauvignon

Producer: Moss Wood

Country: Australia

Region: Margaret River, Western Australia

Bottle size: 750ml