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MAIN DIVIDE RIESLING 2024

A comforting classic – reliable, charming, and always satisfying!

Product Code: 4505
Country: New Zealand
Region: North Canterbury
Sub Region: Waipara
Style: White
Variety: Riesling
Producer: Main Divide

Closure: Screw Cap
Unit: Each
Volume: 750ml
Alcohol: 12.0%
Grape: 100% Riesling

Original price was: $22.99.Current price is: $17.99.

A comforting classic – reliable, charming, and always satisfying!

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When it comes to Riesling, few do it better than Pegasus Bay. Internationally acclaimed and masters of this expressive variety, their expertise shines through, even in their entry-level range.

Main Divide Riesling is a long-time favourite of ours, and it’s not hard to see why. This release is bursting with flavour, beautifully balanced, and effortlessly drinkable, it’s the kind of wine you’ll reach for again and again. We call it a comfort wine, reliable, charming, and always satisfying.

Like the rest of the Main Divide range, this bottle seriously overdelivers on quality, flavour, and value.

Winery notes (2024 Vintage)
"On release it has a pale gold hue. Fragrant and perfumed, the nose offers a rich tapestry of orange blossom and jasmine, interwoven with hints of lime peel, spiced apple, white fleshed pleach and a lick of honey. The palate has a delicious engagement, with a spritzy mouthfeel, attractive sweetness and beautifully infused acidity. These elements unite, adding structure and length, on the long, citrus laden finish."

92/100 Cameron Douglas MS, March 2025 (2024 Vintage)
"Fragrant, intense and varietal bouquet with a crisp apple and citrus attack. Aromas of lemon and red apple, honeysuckle, lime-flower and a lick of botrytis present an attractive offering. A lovely wine on the palate with flavours that reflect the bouquet as well as a cider note. Plenty of acidity for freshness and style leading to lengthy finish. Best drinking from early 2026 through 2030."

Reviews for the 2023 vintage below…

5 Stars & 94/100 Sam Kim, Wine Orbit, June 2024 (2023 Vintage)
"Gorgeously fruited and seductively fragrant, showing grilled pineapple, mango, orange peel and warm spice aromas on the nose, followed by an opulent palate that's filled with rich fruit intensity combined with subtle sweetness and juicy acidity, making it delectable and highly enjoyable. Style: Medium. At its best: now to 2030."

5 Stars & 18.5/20 (93) Candice Chow, Raymond Chan Reviews, July 2024 (2023 Vintage)
"Bright, even, pale yellow with depth and a green sheen. The nose is full, with lush aromas of mango, kumquat, sweet floral, honey and citrus. Medium-full bodied, medium-dry to taste, aromas of mango entwined with kumquat, honey, frangipani and citrus zest. The flavours are complex and lightly savoury; honey richness and fruit weight provide substance flows along a zingy acid line. This rich, medium-dry style Riesling is complex with tropical and citrus lead, enriched by honey and savoury botrytised elements, driving a charming, long finish. The grapes were picked in stages; some parcels were left to hang and harvested with a portion of noble botrytis. The free run juice was cool-fermented 12% alc, 24 g/l RS."

Joelle Thomson, drinksbiz Magazine October/November 2024 (2023 Vintage)
"Main Divide Riesling is North Canterbury's best-value Riesling, hands-down. Lush, fleshy and textural, it has intensely powerful ripe mandarin aromas, luscious lemon zet flavours and the ability to age for seven to eight years plus. This is New Zealand’s most consistently delicious Riesling under $25 every year."

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 $6 for packaging. To ensure the safety of the bottles we use specially designed posting boxes.

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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.