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PEGASUS BAY RIESLING 2024

Consistently classy iconic Riesling from North Canterbury

Product Code: 4905
Country: New Zealand
Region: North Canterbury
Sub Region: Waipara
Style: White
Variety: Riesling
Producer: Pegasus Bay

Closure: Screw Cap
Unit: Each
Volume: 750ml
Alcohol: 12.5%
Grape: 100% Riesling

Original price was: $31.99.Current price is: $27.99.

Consistently classy iconic Riesling from North Canterbury

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Pegasus Bay Riesling is arguably the wine that put Waipara on the map. It's a classic and always delivers. Perfect at anytime of the day – it just makes you feel good.

Winery notes (2024 Vintage)
"It has a pale lemon hue. Opulently scented, the nose unfurls in waves of citrus, floral and tropical tones. A surge of mandarin spray, pineapple, honeydew melon, and citrus blossom, ebbs to reveal an undercurrent of green apple, kaffir lime leaf and oriental spice, drifting over a steely mineral floor. The palate is rich yet precise, a textured mouthfeel and charming sweetness balanced by appetising acidity and well pitched phenolics. This is an elegant and stylised wine, crisp and structural, with a long, resonant finish.

Cooler and windier conditions during Spring meant lower crop levels, keeping fruit thinning to a minimum. The weather gods then handed us the opposite during Summer, with a warm and settled state prevailing, so this smaller crop was able to mature beautifully. Autumn was similarly favourable, allowing each variety to be picked at its optimum ripeness. Our 2024 harvest saw smaller yields across the board, but as a result we were blessed with intense fruit flavour and concentration, delivering some outstanding wine."

Reviews for the 2023 vintage below…

5 Stars & 95/100 Sam Kim, Wine Orbit, August 2024 (2023 Vintage)
"Gorgeously fruited and instantly appealing, the wine shows golden apple, marmalade, warm spice, grapefruit, and flinty notes. It's followed by a wonderfully flavoursome palate filled with succulent fruit intensity. Attractive sweetness and beautifully infused acidity complement it, making it highly enjoyable. Style: Medium. At its best: now to 2035."

Rated Excellent & 94/100 Cameron Douglas MS, August 2024 (2023 Vintage)
"The bouquet is quite closed, yet still variety with a lifted bouquet of white flowers, blossoms, and scents of citrus, and orange blossom. A just off-dry wine touches the palate with a backbone of acidity and core flavours that mirror the bouquet, the volume is tuned up, flavors of citrus and apple, lees and a natural white spice quality before the floral scents and orange peel qualities return. Lengthy, elegant and ready, a wine that will also age well. best drinking from day or purchase through 2035."

5 Stars Michael Cooper (2023 Vintage)
"Based on mature vines and stop fermented in a distinctly medium style, this classic wine breaks into full stride at about three years old and can mature well for over a decade. The 2023 vintage is already delicious. Bright, light lemon/green, it is attractively scented and finely poised, with rich, vigorous, peachy, citrusy flavours, gentle sweetness, good acid spine, and lovely vibrancy, depth and harmony."

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 $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"