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PEGASUS BAY MUSCAT 2019

A rare, estate grown, North Canterbury Gem!

Product Code: 4769
Country: New Zealand
Region: North Canterbury
Sub Region: Waipara
Style: White
Variety: Muscat
Producer: Pegasus Bay

Closure: Screw Cap
Unit: Each
Volume: 750ml
Alcohol: 14.9%
Grape: 100% Muscat

Original price was: $32.99.Current price is: $27.99.

A rare, estate grown, North Canterbury Gem!

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Winery notes (2019 Vintage)
"We use the traditional French variety of Muscat (Muscat à petit grain). There are very few rows in our vineyard, so only a small volume of this wine has been made. After picking, the grapes were gently pressed, with only the free run juice being used. The wine was tank fermented to preserve varietal integrity, and slowly matured over four months, until a perfect balance was achieved.

On release it has a bright lemon hue. The nose is exotic and intensely perfumed, a core of rose oil and lavender interwoven with threads of rock melon, mango, key lime pie, dried fig, vanilla and a whisp of nougat. Plush and silky textured, with a backbone of acidity and ripe phenolics to contrast the gentle off-dry mouthfeel. Elegantly structured, it flows evenly across the palate, building towards a sustained and harmonious finish."

Reviews for the 2018 vintage below…

Rated Excellent & 93/100 Cameron Douglas MS, October 2022 (2018 Vintage)
"Wonderful, intense aromatics of flowers and white spices, some candy, honey, apricots, peaches and roasted yellow apples. Fleshy, fruity, spicy and delicious. There’s texture to this wine from phenolics and fruit tannins, the acidity pushes these along nicely, but the wine always comes back to the fruit. Nice lengthy finish, balanced and well made with best drinking from day of purchase through 2026."

5 Stars Michael Cooper, July 2023 (2018 Vintage)
"This rare, estate-grown, North Canterbury wine is made in a sturdy Alsace style, hand-harvested ultra-ripe at Waipara and tank-fermented. The light gold, powerful 2018 vintage is fragrant and weighty (over 15 per cent alcohol by volume), with rich, peachy flavours, gentle sweetness (14 grams/litre of residual sugar), and bottle-aged complexity. A very distinctive wine, it's probably at or near its peak."

We provide a door to door delivery service nationwide. Delivery charges are calculated on a 12 bottle case or part there of.

Delivery charges are calculated during the checkout process based off your address post code. Please ensure you choose the correct post code. We will advise you if you have chosen the incorrect post code.

You may also choose to 'pick up' your order from our wine shop at 188 Durham Street South, Christchurch.

For further details on prices and delivery options please go to the Delivery & Returns section of our site.

If for any reason you are not entirely happy with your order or you suspect that it may be affected by a quality issue, please do not hesitate to contact us and we will remedy the problem straight away. Contact us on (03) 3655134.

Note, for orders of 1 - 2 bottles we charge an additional $5 for packaging. To ensure the safety of the bottles we use specially designed posting boxes.

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The Pegasus Bay vineyard enjoys the natural advantages provided by its Waipara Valley location: high sunshine hours, hot dry norwesters, closeness to the Pacific Ocean combined with good shelter from its Easterlies, a bed of ancient gravel and smooth stones enhancing drainage and overall heat retention - all conspiring to provide an ideal, prolonged grape ripening season.

Pegasus Bay has spaces for private events, including landscaped gardens, wetlands and lakes and two levels of well-appointed restaurant area.

Bob Campbell MW, of Australian Gourmet Traveller says "Pegasus Bay gets my vote for Waipara’s top winery for a number of reasons: its wines are often exceptionally good and are always made in adventurous, out of the main stream styles"