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PEGASUS BAY ARIA LATE PICKED RIESLING 2025

The Iconic Late Picked Riesling from the Waipara Riesling Masters. Delicious!

Product Code: 5212
Country: New Zealand
Region: North Canterbury
Sub Region: Waipara
Style: White
Variety: Riesling
Producer: Pegasus Bay

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

Original price was: $45.99.Current price is: $41.99.

The Iconic Late Picked Riesling from the Waipara Riesling Masters. Delicious!

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Producer of the Year – Susie & Peter New Zealand Wines of the Year 2026

Pegasus Bay are no strangers to glowing praise, but they are particularly chuffed about a recent accolade they received being named PRODUCER OF THE YEAR in Susie & Peters NZ WINES OF THE YEAR 2026.

For those of you that don’t know Susie & Peter, they are both UK based MW’s and have a very popular podcast called Wine Blast. They tasted through over 200 wines from NZ’s best producers to assemble the list. See the list here.

Winery notes (2025 Vintage)
"It has a bright gold tint. Beautiful florality wafts from the glass, with aromas of honeysuckle and elderflower, entwined with impressions of marmalade, pineapple, ginger and lemon meringue pie. The palate is richly textured, with commanding weight and depth, backed by a luscious personality. Ripe fruit is underlain with taut acidity and engaging phenolics, adding intensity and focus on the long, succulent travel.

Aria is part of Pegasus Bay’s reserve series and is the sister wine to our Bel Canto dry riesling. After an extended hang time, the bunches were hand selected with a portion of noble botrytis and a ripeness of approximately 28 Brix. The grapes were then gently pressed, and the juice fermented slowly at cool temperatures to help the wine retain its vibrant fruit characters and varietal purity. At all stages, from fermentation to bottling, it was handled very carefully to help retain a little of its naturally dissolved carbon dioxide. This has resulted in a small amount of spritzig, which adds extra liveliness to the wine and accentuates its freshness."

Rated Excellent & 94/100 Cameron Douglas MS, February 2026 (2025 Vintage)
"A wine of character, presence and power. This wine is just so delicious, it’s salivating and sweet, silken in texture and vibrantly taut with its acid line. Flavours of apricots and limes, quince and apple, sweet flowers and honeysuckle. A classic wine for Aotearoa New Zealand and Pegasus Bay. Delicious, succulent and new. A wine to enjoy either form day of purchase through 2035+ or ideally from 2029 through 2035+."

Reviews for the 2024 vintage below…

5 Stars & 96/100 Sam Kim, Wine Orbit, March 2025 (2024 Vintage)
"This is immediately appealing on the nose with orange peel, grilled pineapple, Manuka Honey, and warm spice aromas, followed by a plush palate that's richly textured with delectable sweetness, wonderfully balanced by juicy acidity. Opulent with excellent harmony and structure, making it hugely appealing. At its best: now to 2038."

5 Stars & 19+/20 (96) Candice Chow, Raymond Chan, March 2025 (2024 Vintage)
"Bright, even, pale yellow gold. The nose is elegant and fragrant, with aromas of stonefruit, citrus, frangipani, jasmine, honey and spice. Medium-bodied, sweet to taste, with aromas of apricot, ripe peach and mandarin entwined with honey, jasmine, frangipani and ginger. The flavour is detailed and vivid, complex yet elegant, with a creamy mouthfeel and impeccable tension and balance. This Riesling is engaging, expressive and refined. Match with pan-seared foie gras and cheese soufflé over the next 10+ years. Only made in exceptional years, hand selected, fermented cool to 12% alc, 92 g/l RS."

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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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"