2022 Moss Wood Semillon, Margaret River, Western Australia

Medium straw colour, with some green tints. The nose is ethereal, with lifted perfumes of lemon sherbet, green apples, honey suckle and figs. Underneath there is just some early suggestions of the variety's complex features like lanolin and mushroom. The palate shows fruit flavours of limes, figs and lychees and is rich, generous and mouth-filling.

Moss Wood was planted in the Margaret River sub-region of Wilyabrup in 1969 by Bill Pannel and was one of the first wineries established in an area at the time unknown for wine. Keith Mugford, a Roseworthy graduate, was employed as winemaker in 1979 and went on, with his wife Clare, to buy the property from Bill in 1985. The estate vineyard is just under 12 hectares in size with sandy and gravelly loam soils, whilst the 6.34-hectare Ribbon Vale vineyard, purchased in 2000 and located a few hundred metres to the south, has pure gravel loam soils over clay. 

14.5% ABV.