2009

91+/100 points

"... It gives a beautiful nose ... Concentrated, complex flavour ... and the finish is long.  Approachable now, it should develop wonderfully over the next 6-8+ years."

Lisa Perrotti-Brown/Robert Parker, The Wine Advocate, USA 

93/100 points

Top 12 NZ Rieslings "Big, bold characterful wine that couldn't come from any other winery.  ... this concentrated and complex example totally seduces me ... Very classy wine ... It has all the flavour and weight of a sweeter style, but it is dry."

Bob Campbell MW, Gourmet Traveller Wine, Australia

2008

"Fresh, lime, steely and racy on the nose. Very complete and beautifully balanced with real pizzazz to it. Already a fine aperitif. Dry"

Jancis Robinson,UK
 

93/100 points 

"Another trade mark Pegasus Bay dry Riesling...This is full of ripe stone fruits and citrus, fully textured and kaleidoscopic".

Nick Stock, MBM, Australia

"… it’s a very good Riesling made in an Alsace style with plenty of stone fruit, citrus and some floral flavours plus good richness …"
Bob Campbell & Huon Hooke, GTW Magazine, Australia

“Dry Riesling can be a difficult style to do well in our climes, but this full-flavoured example from Riesling supremos Pegasus Bay has a richness that pulls this off with aplomb.  Made from late-harvest fruit from the estate’s oldest vines, it’s an ultra-intense wine in which notes of white peach, mandarin peel, blossom and exotic spice combine with its fresh lift of mineral, grapefruit and tongue-tingling spritz.”
Jo Burzynska, New Zealand Herald