Description / Reviews
"2016 - warm and settled weather during flowering led to a very large initial set. Fruit thinning was then undertaken to bring the crop back to the desired level. A perfect summer, followed by a warm dry autumn enabled the subsequent grapes to be harvested with excellent flavour development and physiological ripeness. It has a deep ruby hue, turning to brick red at the edges. The bouquet is a complex and compelling melange of pomegranate, cherry, vanilla, chocolate and spice. There is also a pleasing savouriness, offering up notes of game, mushroom and thyme. The diligent use of French oak at the time has served this wine well, resulting a finely textured palate. This is complemented by a core of refreshing minerality that gives the wine a lively tension, resulting in superb strucutre and length." - Winemaker Notes
"A completely delicious wine. Everything about the bouquet and palate is Pegasus Bay through and through. From the dark cherry and gently spiced plum, to the signature of chalky limestone soil and stone ideas this is a complete wine. Polished, long-chain integrating tannins, the acid line carries flavour and texture throughout the palate and brings together a length and definitively youthful finish. Well made, integrating nicely with best drinking from day of purchase through 2034." - 95 Points, Cam Douglas MS
