Moss Wood Cabernet Sauvignon 2023

Written By Campbell Mattinson
Bottle of Moss Wood Vineyard Cabernet Sauvignon 2023.

Moss Wood Wilyabrup Cabernet Sauvignon 2023
AU$180, 14% alcohol, screwcap, Margaret River.

This is luscious and lovely and loaded with pure, concentrated blackcurrant flavour and yet, crucially, it’s also balanced, fresh, lengthy and ultimately elegant. It’s everything that a great Margaret River cabernet should be. It adds complementary tobacco notes to the swoosh of fruit; there are whispers of bay leaf; creamy oak is played modestly but strategically; and the finish is both intricately woven and firm-enough for the wine to feel complete. Classic wine, classic Moss Wood.

96 points – Campbell Mattinson.

Campbell Mattinson

Campbell Mattinson has been an independent journalist, wine critic and photographer for forty years. He founded The Winefront, is a former chief editor of the Halliday Wine Companion (and former editor of Halliday magazine), and is the only Australian to have won the Australian Wine Communicator of the Year Award more than once. He is 100% independent, and tastes between 5,000 and 10,000 wines each year, blind and in comparative brackets as often as is practicable.

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Mattinson is also the founder of the Mattinson Photography business.

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