PEGASUS BAY ENCORE NOBLE RIESLING 2025 375ml

“Long, fruitful and delicious. This is medicine for the soul.”

Product Code: 4209
Country: New Zealand
Region: North Canterbury
Sub Region: Waipara
Style: Dessert
Variety: Botrytis / Late Harvest
Producer: Pegasus Bay

Closure: Screw Cap
Unit: Each
Volume: 375ml
Alcohol: 11.0%
Grape: 100% Riesling

$42.99

“Long, fruitful and delicious. This is medicine for the soul.”

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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.

The wine has intense aromas and flavours of ripe peaches, nectarines and apricots. Behind these lie hints of tropical fruits, such as pineapples, guavas and lychees. It has a core of citrus fruit characters with impressions of lemons, limes and grape-fruit, that flow through the palate and linger as a tingling minerality, perfectly balancing its lusciously, honeyed structure.

Winery notes (2025 Vintage)
"With an alluring pale gold hue, Encore 2025 presents a delightfully fragranced nose, replete with lychee, apricot, honeyed pear and chocolate orange. Nestled within there are also suggestions of linden blossom, sweet spices and a whisp of cut hay. On the generous and engaging palate your senses are fully occupied. Succulent fruit intensity is complemented by charming sweetness and a whip of lively acidity, setting the stage for a long and luscious finish.

Encore is part of our reserve series and is dependent on specific conditions at the end of the season leading to noble rot. This wine is made in the style of an Alsatian Selection des Grains Nobles, or a German Trockenbeerenauslësen. Riesling grapes were left to hang until late autumn, and then hand-picked, choosing the most beautifully botrytic fruit. Further hand selection was carried out in the winery, retaining only the best berries. These were gently pressed, and a small amount of very rich juice obtained. This was transferred into tank, where it was left to gradually ferment at low temperatures, to preserve varietal purity and help the wine express the unique characters of our region."

5 Stars & 97/100 Sam Kim, Wine Orbit, February 2026 (2025 Vintage)
"Gloriously composed and expressed, the enticing bouquet showcases Manuka honey, grilled pineapple, mango, potpourri, and warm spice aromas. The palate is concentrated and richly textured, exhibiting outstanding depth and a plush mouthfeel, wonderfully enhanced by delectable sweetness and finely integrated acidity, making it harmonious with a long, sumptuous finish. At its best: now to 2040."

Rated Outstanding & 96/100 Cameron Douglas MS, February 2026 (2025 Vintage)
"A powerful honeyed fruits bouquet, spices and treacle, tart apples and citrus peel. On the palate, a completely delicious wine, seductive and fruity, very sweet and piquant with a backbone of acidity for contrast and saline salivating appeal. Long, fruitful and delicious. This is medicine for the soul. Best from day of purchase through 2036+."

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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"