Pegasus Bay Semillon Sauvignon 2023 (750ml)

An exciting and vibrant bouquet of fresh citrus fruits, a fine savoury quality then layers of peach and pith, an apple crisp quality and layer of stones and gravels. A taut firm palate with a high acid line, the fine savoury idea returns as a definitive texture, flavours mirror the bouquet and there’s a gently warming alcohol. A wine that’s all about bouquet, flavour and mouthfeel simultaneously delivering at volume and intensity. This wine will age well with best drinking from 2025 through 2034+.

I have to admit to loving this wine. It's wild. The 2023 Sauvignon Blanc leads with dried herbs, tobacco, jasmine tea, graphite, that complex drift of dehydrated orange peel—from the skin-contact component—and a host of other characters. A wine that you can sit on and consider is an exciting wine in my book. In the mouth, the wine is textural and dry, layered and complex, with all of the characters mentioned above, a warmth of alcohol and plenty of other attractive things that keep me coming back for more. I wrote, upon my visit to the estate last year, that Pegasus Bay is responsible for Rieslings worth crossing an ocean for. I'd say the same for this Sauvignon Blanc. This is an excellent wine, among my favorites in all of New Zealand. It's textural as hell, chewy and great.