Description
"Strong, healthy red-purple; a distinguished vintage for this Margaret River blue blood wine, medium-bodied but with innate complexity; fine savoury tannins run through the black fruits and cassis of the palate, putting structure in place so subtly you can barely notice it, nor the length of the palate." - 96 points, Halliday Wine Companion
"(includes 6% petit verdot and 3% cabernet franc): Vivid ruby. Intensely perfumed nose offers a heady bouquet of spicy cherry and cassis, with exotic floral and mineral notes adding complexity. Pliant dark berry and candied cherry flavors possess excellent depth and show a measured sweetness. Finishes with superb lift and cut, leaving floral and spice notes behind." - 94 points, Josh Reynolds
"So, my favourite vintages of Moss Wood Cabernet (of the last ten years) remain 2005 and 2001. This was tasted alongside the 2008 vintages of Cape Mentelle, Higher Plane and Vasse Felix Heytesbury as a point of reference – over two days.
It’s fair to say I have a minor issue with the type of oak Moss Wood use on their Cabernet – it deserves better. Resinous oak, beef stock, black fruit, chocolate and rum and raisin characters on a full bodied palate that’s throbbing with power and weight, but lacking charm, at least as a young wine. The quality of tannin is exemplary, ripe and minerally, as is the length. It built some perfume in glass and freshened and showed glimmers of red fruit and mint. There’s latent power here certainly. A second day’s tasting saw the wine return to a somewhat more sullen state – a little baked and flat on the nose, but with the same great structure and strength on the palate. Like the 2001 vintage, time should be kind to it, although the oak will always remain a minor annoyance." - 92+ points, Gary Walsh
