2022 Pegasus Bay Riesling Bel Canto

Community Tasting Notes (3) Avg Score: 95 points

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  2/17/2024 - drwine2001 wrote:

  New Zealand Trip; 2/10/2024-2/24/2024: By the glass pour. Light yellow. Slightly reduced. Unusual herbal thread in addition to flowers and tropical fruit. Medium weight. Increasingly bright pineapple and nectarine. Off dry entry, fair concentration, and potent acidity and soil on the finish. Youthful and excellent although the nose and slight herbaceousness on the palate would have thrown me off as to the varietal.

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  2/6/2024 - kostaslonis wrote:

  New Zealand London Annual Trade Tasting (Lindley Hall, Royal Horticultural Halls): reductive, tight, dry fruit, green apple, palate smoother, light, same flavor profile, elevated acidity, crunchy

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  2/6/2024 - Callum's Corkers Likes this wine: 95 Points

  14.5% alc. Screw cap seal. Tasted chilled, no decant.
  Bought in UK for around £30.00
  
  N....lovely near-funky/sweaty whiff, plus damp apple skins, all medium+ intensity. Charming.
  
  C....light Gold, looks medium-heavy body; alc legs on glass.
  
  T.....rich vibrant exciting flavours; some apricot which starts off a tad tart, gorgeous lively acidity, some crisp green apple plus big intense yellow and white stone fruit, shedloads of New World Riesling typicity; plus some mango and passion tropicals with nice citrus orange/lemon balance.
  
  No proper mineral streak - it would be the complete wine if it had 'em, and an even higher score (I've had plenty of vintages of this wine, and this 2022 is the best yet/my highest score). There's even some slight white tannins, which added to it's interesting texture. Covers plenty of bases, this does.
  
  Opening it at just 2 yrs bottle age is no crime, it's drinking v well, though clearly there's plenty of cellar potential.
  
  An on-going year on year label quibble, though:
  it says 'Dry Riesling'.
  Do I have to go to Trading Standards?
  It's not Dry!
  
  FVM/QPR?.....pretty good value for money, costs around £30 yet I reckon a German or Alsace Riesling of this class would be £50+ easy-peasy. Buying more of the 2022.

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