2024 Moss Wood Chardonnay

97 Points, Ray Jordan, rayjordan.com.au
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.

95 Points, James Suckling, jamessuckling.com
Generous, rounded aromas of lemon confit, honeysuckle, beeswax, lanolin, pastry, grapefruit and salted nuts. The palate is medium- to full-bodied, but don’t be turned off by the ripeness. There’s great tension and purity with a mineral drive underneath the textural, creamy and very giving finish. Typical of the vintage, balancing freshness and power, but in an old-school style. Drink or hold. Screw cap.

Edward Agg, The Cellar Post
This is excellent. Lemons, lemon rinds, pith, grapefruit, fleshy white nectarines, marzipan, and almonds with wafts of minerally ocean spray and quartz. Medium-full on the palate, beautifully textured and almost perfect in concentration. Lemon and white grapefruit, panna cotta, ginger, honey, sea spray. Everything is so very well done and balanced. Lovely length and flavour…

Wine Worth Writing Blog
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 grip tight. As of right now, it’s quite firmly structured and needed some hours to unfurl and come together.

Generous flavours of Korean pear, white peach, slightly underripe nectarine, zesty lemon/lime, apricot nectar, toasted oats and caramelised white chocolate show their hand quite early in the arc and do their best to hold over a long, dry and phenolic tail that will surely evolve in time. A serious release of the Moss Wood Chardonnay.