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PEGASUS BAY MALBEC 2021

Product Code: 4330
Country: New Zealand
Region: North Canterbury
Sub Region: Waipara
Style: Red
Variety: Malbec
Producer: Pegasus Bay

Closure: Screw Cap
Unit: Each
Volume: 750ml
Alcohol: 14.5%
Grape: 100% Malbec

Original price was: $42.99.Current price is: $36.99.

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Winery notes (2021 Vintage)
"It has a dense inky hue upon release. Brooding yet seductive aromas march stealthily from the glass, dark fruit reminiscent of bramble and blackberry, followed by a surge of sweet tobacco, cacao, leather, and roast game, spliced with hints of black pepper, nutmeg, and cloves. The mouthfeel is muscular, dense, and savoury, with invigorating acidity and persistent tannins carving their way across a spice laden palate. Impressively concentrated, this wine showcases bounteous fruit weight balanced with a coiled tension that accelerates towards a powerful, lengthy finish. While ready to drink now, it will evolve harmoniously in the bottle for many years to come.

Malbec is a Bordeaux varietal, and therefore we have used traditional winemaking methods from this region. After being picked in the first half of April, the grapes began fermentation naturally in stainless steel tanks. During this process the juice was regularly pumped over the cap of floating grape skins (rather than plunging), to ensure a perfect tannin balance was extracted from the fruit. The wine was then gently pressed off and put into French oak barriques (40% new). The following summer, when the weather warmed, it underwent a natural malo-lactic (secondary) fermentation. After maturing in oak for 18 months, the wine was then racked several times allowing it to clarify naturally, prior to bottling."

Rated Excellent & 94/100 Cameron Douglas MS, May 2024 (2021 Vintage)
"A bouquet of intensity and power, ripeness and intrigue. Aromas and flavours include black currant and Doris plums, dark chocolate and blackberry jam, there’s moments of marmite and toasted barrel spices then velvet roses and clove. Ripe tannins and acid line deliver mouthfeel and tension, core fruit flavours are persistent with a plush ripe quality. Well made, lengthy and rather delicious. Best drinking from 2026 through 2034+."

5 Stars & 94/100 Sam Kim, Wine Orbit, May 2024 (2021 Vintage)
"Bold and brooding, the richly expressed bouquet shows blackcurrant, blueberry, tar, warm spice and toasted nut aromas. The palate delivers excellent weight and depth, wonderfully supported by plush texture and loads of silky tannins. Robust and flavoursome with a lengthy structured finish. At its best: now to 2033."

We provide a door to door delivery service nationwide. Delivery charges are calculated on a 12 bottle case or part there of.

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You may also choose to 'pick up' your order from our wine shop at 188 Durham Street South, Christchurch.

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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 $5 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"