Moss Wood Pinot Noir 2021
- 92
- $93
- Drink by: 2023-2026
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Always a controversial wine, one wonders whether detractors base their dislike simply on a once-prevailing view that Western Australia cannot or should not make Pinot Noir. These days, we have more than enough evidence that good Pinot can most certainly come from the West. Others simply like the wine because it is attractive and enjoyable drinking. The fruit went into small, open fermenters with 8% whole bunches before a controlled ferment and 17 days on skins then into French oak for more than a year, 17% new. Bright crimson in colour, the nose offers spices, animal fur, truffles, red cherries, a little briary note, undergrowth and dry herbs. Lots of flavour on the palate, which really lifts and good acidity which runs the length. This is a seamless style with very good length, the intensity maintained for the full journey underpinned by soft tannins. This is one of the better Moss Wood Pinots for some time. Drink now and for six years.
Ken was born and bred in Brisbane, Queensland. He had a non-trendy, perfectly happy childhood, in a family convinced alcohol meant instant condemnation to Hades. But a break fishing on the Great Barrier Reef, and some good wine, started a serious obsession that eventually took over. It did not stop Ken being chastised later for drinking Pol champagne, disgusted he’d drink anything made by a Cambodian dictator. Now, Ken mostly writes on wine, champagne and spirits for various newspapers, magazines and books, but is perhaps best known for his work in The Courier Mail. He also has a little sideline writing on cigars, fishing, travel and food. When not writing, fly-fishing for trout in NZ or bonefish on the flats of Cuba, travelling or smoking cigars, he is no doubt following a variety of sporting teams – the occasionally glorious Queensland Reds rugby, the dysfunctional Washington Redskins, the dodgy Arsenal and especially revels in the world restored to its proper axis with the return of the Ashes to their rightful home.
