Pegasus Bay Reserve 'Prima Donna' Pinot Noir 2020, Waipara Valley, North Canterbury

Complexity and enticement with a full and richly scented bouquet from ripe dark cherry and plum fruits, baking spices and soil smoke, clove and vanilla. There’s an intensity and complexity that offers promise and quality. Rest assured it is fantastic with flavours of dark berries and wood smoke, there’s a light flinty reductive quality that precedes additional flavours from dark rose and barrel spice to layers of lees. An abundance of tannins and acidity for mouthfeel and framing of the fruit. Well made, lengthy and complex. Best from 2028 through 2038+.

95 Points

Outstanding

RRP form $105.00

I tasted this wine again December 2nd. My thoughts about this wine remain the same, drinkable today though likely ideal 2028 through 2038. Still 95 Points too.