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2009 Pegasus Bay Sauvignon/Semillon Waipara Valley
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2009 Pegasus Bay Sauvignon/Semillon Waipara Valley

Producer: Pegasus Bay
Style: White Wine
Grape Type: Sauvignon Blanc
Origin: New Zealand
Region: New Zealand

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91 Points | International Wine Cellar , September/October 2011

(a 70/30 blend):  Very pale, greenish color.  Pungent yet subtle aromas of gooseberry, white peach, white pepper and flowers, with a waxy semillon suggestion and a building pineapple quality.  Enters the mouth dense and slightly sweet, then turns quite dry and tactile on the back half, displaying flavors of stone fruits and ginger.  Rather closed in the way of a young white Graves.  Not yet expressive but finishes with sneaky persistence and gains in pineappley sweetness with aeration.  More complex and animated than most New Zealand sauvignons.

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New Zealand's ocean-influenced climate--markedly cooler than that of its neighbor Australia--yields wines with admirable fruit intensity and crisp acidity. Fully two-thirds of New Zealand's wine production is white, and more than half of the wine it ships to America is Sauvignon Blanc. The U.S. market has developed a major thirst for these juicy, fresh New Zealand Sauvignons, which are mostly free of oak influence. But New Zealand Pinot Noir, too, is growing...
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