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PEGASUS BAY FINALE 2021 375ml

Sam Kim Wine Orbit 95 Points
Excellent Cameron Douglas MS
97 Points
5 Stars Raymond Chan
5 Stars Bob Campbell MW
5 Stars Michael Cooper
5 Stars

An Excellent NZ Example of French Sauternes Style of Dessert Wine

  • Closure: Screw Cap
  • Unit: Each
  • Volume: 375ml
  • Alcohol: 13.5%
  • Grape: SΓ©millon, Sauvignon Blanc

Original price was: $49.99.Current price is: $43.99.

An Excellent NZ Example of French Sauternes Style of Dessert Wine

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Winery notes (2021 Vintage)
"Finale is part of our reserve series and is only made in exceptional years, being dependent on specific conditions at the end of the season leading to noble rot. Modelled on a French Sauternes using traditional Bordeaux techniques, the wine is a Semillon/ Sauvignon blend. Only the most beautifully raisined, perfectly botrytic bunches were selected to make this wine. A small amount of very concentrated juice was then obtained from these grapes and put into new French artisan oak barriques (50% new), where the two varieties were left to ferment separately. The wine was then matured in these barriques on its natural deposits of yeast lees (sur lie) for 12 months, prior to blending and bottling.

On release it has a bright gold hue. A rich tapestry of aromas surge from the glass, dried apricot, honeycomb, and lemon curd interwoven with hints of toffee apple, coconut, and BBQ pineapple. The mouthfeel is unctuously decadent, multilayered, and textural, caressing all areas of the palate. Full bodied and generously proportioned, yet balanced with a core of invigorating acidity, ensuring the wine retains focus and finesse, leading to a prolonged and harmonious finish. 182 g/l RS."


5 Stars & 97/100 Sam Kim, Wine Orbit, April 2024 (2021 Vintage)
"Sumptuous and unctuous, the wine shows dried apricot, honey, marmalade, baked fig and ginger spice aromas on the nose. It's powerfully concentrated on the palate exhibiting outstanding depth and lavish texture, combined with fabulous sweetness and refreshing acidity, finishing impressively long and gratifying. At its best: now to 2037."


5 Stars & 96/100 Bob Campbell MW, The Real Review, May 2024 (2021 Vintage)
"Noble sweet white blend made in the style of Sauternes. Very luscious without being cloying. Plenty of honeyed botrytis influence with vanilla, ginger, bush honey and quince characters. A wonderful dessert wine."


5 Stars & 19+/20 (96) Candice Chow, Raymond Chan Reviews, May 2024 (2021 Vintage)
"Bright, even, medium yellow gold. This has a rich, engaging bouquet packed with aromas of smoke flint and spice overlying apricot, citrus peels, honey and quince paste. Full-bodied, aromas of dried apricot entwined with lemon curd, peach puree, unfolding citrus peels, honey, quince paste, cardamon, ginger and smoke flint. The mouthfeel is opulent; creamy, honey-like texture sustains powerful layers and structure, along with zingy acidity persists a lengthy, refined finish. This Noble Semillon Sauvignon is powerful and harmonious, opulently expressed with complexity."


Rated Excellent & 94/100 Cameron Douglas MS, April 2024 (2021 Vintage)
"This really is a delicious wine, exotic and fruity, aromas of orange and cape gooseberry, the signature of Sauvignon Blanc offers sweet bell-pepper and mango, pineapple and preserved citrus peel. The Semillon deliver s a grapefruit and hay quality, honey and ginger. Deliciously sweet as the wine touches the palate, exotic and fruity, waxy and fresh. High acidity easily counterbalances the residual sweet (182 gpl), there’s a silky creamy texture and lengthy finish. Best drinking from 2024 through 2304+."


5 Stars Michael Cooper, July 2024 (2021 Vintage)
"The 2021 vintage is light gold and honey sweet. Estate-grown in North Canterbury and made in the classic Sauternes style, it was matured for a year in French oak barriques. Already lovely, it is mouthfilling, rich and sweetly seductive, with a slightly oily texture and concentrated, peachy, gently honeyed aromas and flavours, complex and smooth."

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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"

  • NZ Wine Country says "if a wine critic was not passionate about any of Pegasus Bay’s wine they should seriously consider a change in career".

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