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MOSS WOOD Moss Wood Vineyard Cabernet Sauvignon, Margaret River 2008 Bottle
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MOSS WOOD Moss Wood Vineyard Cabernet Sauvignon, Margaret River 2008 Bottle
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About this wine
A Margaret River icon, Moss Wood Vineyard is one of Australia's finest Cabernets.
Moss Wood is one of the Margaret River ‘originals’ (planted 1969; first vintage 1973) and this iconic flagship wine – Langton’s Classified since 1990 – has long been Western Australia’s leading Cabernet Sauvignon.
This legendary Cabernet Sauvignon is intensely perfumed and finely structured with cassis-blackcurrant aromas, hints of cedar and touches of violet. The oak and fruit are neatly balanced.
With proven ageing potential the wine develops subtle earth/demi-glace briar characters on the bouquet, and complexity and suppleness on the palate. The unirrigated and widely spaced vineyard (now 14.86-hectares) is planted on gentle north-east facing slopes with sandy loams to a gravelly red/brown loams over clay.
Typically the fruit is hand-picked, de-stemmed into open tanks and hand-plunged four times a day until completion of fermentation. At the end of vinification, the wine is allowed to macerate for around 10 to 14 days prior to pressing off into barrel. The wine is matured in 30% new and seasoned French oak barriques for 24 months.
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2008 Moss Wood Cabernet Sauvignon, Margaret River - Langton’s Classification – Exceptional - Great Wine Estate of Western Australia - Release Date – Around July 2011
Moss Wood is a delightfully eccentric type of place. The buildings are slightly ramshackle, but the vineyards are beautifully kempt and ordered. You get the feeling that priorities are all in the correct order here. This is not a show case winery. It’s more like a working farm. The boots are solidly on terra firma. The evolution of wine style has been a hit and miss affair but over the decades the wines have slowly progressed to one of the most poetic and gorgeously scented Australian Cabernets. Fruit exposure is a priority in the vineyard.
2008 Moss Wood Cabernet Sauvignon is a brilliant follow up vintage. It is textbook Wilyabrup Cabernet Sauvignon showing all the puissance and elegance of a great year. Its blood red coloured with intense cassis/ blackberry/ mulberry/ herb garden aromas and underlying savoury/ mocha oak. The palate is rich and supple with mulberry/ blackcurrant/ sage flavours, pencil cedar/ mocha oak notes and fine grained tannins. It finishes long and sweet, firm and tight. This is a very exciting and stylish Moss Wood with understated power and finesse. 2007 and 2008 are a pigeon pair of excellence.
Moss Wood, located in the Wilyabrup sub-district of Margaret River – can boast one of the choicest and most beautiful vineyard sites in Australia. Moss Wood Cabernet Sauvignon – first vintage 1973 - is regarded as one of Australia’s great wines offering elegance, retrained power and site specific aromas and flavours.. The 5-hectare vineyard, at Wilyabrup, is planted on gentle northeast facing slopes and soils ranging from sandy loam to a gravelly red/brown loam over clay. The combination of site, vineyard management and soil conservation has been the key to ultimate fruit quality. Longer skin contact time during fermentation and a change in encepagement with the inclusion of Cabernet Franc, Petit Verdot and Merlot in the blend has made the wine deeper in colour, more perfumed and textured. Since the 1996 vintage, all Moss Wood Cabernet Sauvignon sees extended oak ageing of 24 months in French barriques. The first vintage was 1973 with a production of 250 cases. Recently Langton’s sold a bottle of 1973 Moss Wood Cabernet Sauvignon – the winery's first vintage for AU$2,301 (£962) the highest price ever paid for a post-1970 bottle of Australian wine. Moss Wood is a strong proponent of the use of screw caps – approximately 70% of the vintage is now bottled with this alternative closure.
Andrew Caillard, MW
