Moss Wood Semillon 2024

This vintage reminded the family of 1994/1995, though one suspects much has changed in the meantime. The fruit was whole bunch pressed to stainless steel for fermentation, before bottling. The colour here is a shining pale lemon. This is a slightly grassy style, as Margaret River Sem can sometimes be. There are also pleasing notes of lemon curds, citrus, hints of stone fruit and lemongrass and a whiff of honeycomb. Well structured with good focus and energy, this has drive and is of medium length. A wine for enjoying any time over the next six to eight years, although the track record of these wines suggests that they will provide pleasure for many years beyond that. And continue to evolve. If one may digress, for the wine nerds among us who like to soak up every possible detail, winery websites vary enormously from utterly useless to excellent. I have never encountered one better than Moss Wood. If there is something you want to know and it is not on their site, I could not imagine what it could be.