PEGASUS BAY PRIMA DONNA PINOT NOIR 2020

The 2020 Prima Donna will continue the successful lineage of this outstanding Pinot Noir from Pegasus Bay. Sourced from 30+ year old vines. Like the others in the reserve range, this is only made in the top years to produce a wine that they describe as being 'elegant and haunting, yet powerful'. 

Winery notes (2020 Vintage)
"Prima Donna is part of our reserve series which we only make in exceptional years, provided it does not compromise the quality of our estate wines. It is a selection from the best barrels, coming from some of the oldest ungrafted plantings in the vineyard, characterised by small berries and loose open bunches.

Settled weather over flowering provided a healthy fruit set, which was then thinned back to desired levels. The ensuing summer was dry with very little rain, resulting in perfectly ripened small berries full of intense flavour and concentration. Thankfully, our harvest was able to proceed during the C-19 lockdown, and an unbroken autumn full of warm days meant each variety was picked at its optimum ripeness.

Intense ruby coloured, it has a fragrant and savoury bouquet. Impressions of pomegrate and preserved red fruits, melded with smoky bacon, fallen leaves, cedar and toasted spice. Mouthfilling, rich and complex, it touches all areas of the palate, delivering outstanding depth and structure. Fine grained, polished tannins are interwoven seamlessly with brisk acidity and admirable concentration, giving the wine real focus and power. This is a sophisticaed yet elegant wine, with a long, lively tail."

5 Stars & 98/100 Sam Kim, Wine Orbit, September 2024 (2020 Vintage)
"A magnificent rendition of the variety, showing dark berry, dried herb, fine leather, porcini and roasted nut aromas on the nose. The palate exhibits outstanding concentration and depth, wonderfully supported by refined texture and beautifully melded tannins. Sumptuous and expansive, yet structured and robust with an impressively long, engaging finish. At its best: now to 2038."

Rated Outstanding & 95/100 Cameron Douglas MS, October 2024 (2020 Vintage)
"Complexity and enticement with a full and richly scented boquuet from ripe dark cherry and plum fruits, baking spices and soil smoke, clove and vanilla. There’s an intensity and complexity that offers promise and quality. Rest assured it is fantastic with flavours of dark berries and wood smoke, there’s a light flinty reductive quality that precedes additioanl flavours from dark rose and barrel spice to layers of lees. An abundance of tannins and acidity for mouthfeel and framing of the fruit. Well made, lengthy and complex. Best from 2028 through 2038+."