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MAIN DIVIDE PINOT NOIR 2022

Top Selling Pinot Noir Value from Pegasus Bay

Product Code: 4201
Country: New Zealand
Region: South Island
Style: Red
Variety: Pinot Noir
Producer: Main Divide

Closure: Screw Cap
Unit: Each
Volume: 750ml
Alcohol: 13.0%
Grape: 100% Pinot Noir

Original price was: $25.99.Current price is: $21.99.

Top Selling Pinot Noir Value from Pegasus Bay

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Pegasus Bay's Main Divide label is a Canterbury favourite, long renown for quality and value. This 2022 is another quality release – quite savoury in style with dark fruits, smoky charry oak combining for a very tasty Pinot Noir.

Winery notes (2022 Vintage)
"Cold weather during bud burst resulted in lower crop levels, hence no further fruit thinning was carried out. The subsequent warm dry summer served up perfectly ripened small berries full of intense flavour and concentration. Favourable conditions continued into autumn, allowing the fruit to be picked at its optimum ripeness.

Upon release the colour is a vibrant ruby. An enticing medley of red fruit and earthy aromas rise gently from the glass, rhubarb, cherry, and pomegranate at the fore, flanked by impressions of tree moss, mushroom, wood spice, leather, and cinnamon, along with a trace of violet. The mouthfeel is plush and velvety, with fine grained, polished tannins and a tickle of refreshing acidity that sashays across the palate. Fragrant, savoury, and silky, this vintage has delivered a graceful and elegant wine, with a finely textured finish."

Reviews for the 2021 vintge below…

94/100 JamesSuckling.com (2021 Vintage)
"Very fresh with sliced strawberries, hazelnut, cappuccino and biscuit character yet always subtle. Medium to full body, fine tannins and a nice acid background running through the wine."

5 Stars & 94/100 Sam Kim, Wine Orbit, December 2023 (2021 Vintage)
"It's seductively expressed on the nose with dark plum, cake spice, toasted nut, warm mushroom and dried flower aromas, followed by a silky-smooth palate that's succulent and supple. Wonderfully styled and harmonious with a persistent delectable finish."

Rated Excellent & 93/100 Cameron Douglas MS, October 2023 (2021 Vintage)
"Immediately enticing bouquet of red fruits and spice, there’s a toasttiness from the use of oak with clove and vanilla highlights, aromas of plums and cherries, red fruit tea and black currant. Taut and dry with firmish textures from tannins and acidity and a core of red berry fruits and tea that mirror the bouquet. Delicious, fresh, youthful and ready to drink from 2023 through 2029. Excellent value."

4 ½ Stars Michael Cooper (2021 Vintage)
"A consistently rewarding, great-value red from Pegasus Bay. The 2021 vintage is not labelled 'North Canterbury', because more than 15 per cent of the grapes were grown outside the sub-region. It was matured for 18 months in French oak barriques (20 per cent new). Full, bright ruby, with an invitingly fragrant, slightly spicy bouquet, it is mouthfilling, savoury and supple, with generous cherry, plum, tamarillo and spice flavours, showing good complexity, and a smooth finish. A very harmonious red, it's already drinking well."

Rated Very Good to Excellent, Mark Henderson, Otago Daily Times, November 2023 (2021 Vintage)
"Smoke & stuck match notes, char, nicely ripe fruit, attractive florality building. There’s a chewy tannic backdrop but this is all about the fruit, ripe yet dry, with a tangy, zesty quality offering a refreshing counterpoint. Open, bright and well made this is heart on its sleeve stuff just waiting to be enjoyed. Fleshes out very nicely as it takes on air."

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Main Divide is operated by the Donaldson family who work with a number of vineyards in North Canterbury, bringing the fruit together for processing at their winery in Waipara.

Like many New Zealand winemakers, Main Divide pursues a philosophy of natural methods and minimal intervention. They believe in sustainable viticulture, organic techniques, low crop levels, and minimal fruit handling during processing (along with gentle pressing).

Main Divide allows their wine to go through fermentation by wild yeasts, natural secondary or malo-lactic fermentation, and to clarify by settling.

Wine-maker Matthew Donaldson many years of experience and passion to produce a range of wines that show fresh, clean and pure fruit flavours while at the same time clearly expressing the characteristics of each unique vineyard. Matthew has many years experience making wine for both new and old world producers with a particular emphasis on Pinot Noir producing regions.