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Buy OnlinePegasus 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."
5 Stars & 93/100 Sam Kim, Wine Orbit, June 2024 (2023 Vintage)
"It's splendidly ripe and enticing on the nose with dark cherry, wild strawberry, olive and toasted almond notes, followed by a beautifully rounded palate offering bright fruit flavours with savoury nuances, finishing long and satisfying. At its best: now to 2028."
Rated Excellent & 93/100 Cameron Douglas MS, June 2024 (2022 Vintage)
"Very attractive bouquet with scents of baking spices then red berry fruits, some smoky oak and new-ish wood impacts, yet not so much that a light violet quality follows through. Dry and textured and the wine touches the palate, flavours of plums and cherries, mushroom and other earthy qualities that mix with the wood and lees inputs. A wine that will continue to develop over the next 1-3 years. Best drinking from 2025 through 2029."
Reviews for the 2021 vintage 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."
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."
