Pegasus Bay Chardonnay
- White
- New Zealand
- Waipara
- Chardonnay
- Tracked vintages
- 14
- Community notes
- 122
- Merchant offers
- 61
What we know about this wine
- Critics
- 93/ 1002018 · nearest vintage with a critic score
- Real drinkers
- 80/ 100122 notes, every vintage
- Market price
- £37per 75 cl2018 · nearest vintage with a price · 6-bottle in-bond trade, November 2022
- Drinking window
- 2019–2024past its window2017 · nearest vintage with a window
Flavour and structure
What drinkers taste in this wine across its vintages, and how it is built: body, acidity, tannin and sweetness on a five-point scale, with the number of ratings behind them.
Structure from 51 community ratings, read 2026-08-12. Style: New Zealand Chardonnay.
- Body3.6 / 5
- LightFull
- Acidity3.6 / 5
- SoftCrisp
- Sweetness1.7 / 5
- DrySweet
- Oak · oak, butter, vanilla, caramel, toffee
- Earth · minerals, stone, smoke, honey, flint
- Citrus · citrus, lemon, grapefruit, lime, orange
- Tree fruit · peach, apple, pear, apricot, stone fruit
- Ageing (non-oak) · toast, nutty, almond, brioche, hazelnut
- Yeast and lees · cream, oil, yeast, cheese, lemon curd
Grapes: Chardonnay. Proportions are not recorded.
Descriptors are the words drinkers used most, grouped; counts are mentions. Tannin is shown only where it was measured.
2011One point per priced vintage. Years with no price we can stand behind are not drawn.2018
Vintages
Each vintage has its own page with both scores, the drinking window and the merchant price range. The meter is the score on a 60-100 scale and its colour is where that vintage stands against its own drinking window. Prices are per 75cl, with the case size and month they were taken from.
- 2023unit not stated
- 202286drinkersunit not stated
- 202077drinkersunit not stated
- 201979drinkersunit not stated
- 201893critic£37 / 75cl6-bottle in-bond trade, November 2022
- 201796critic£22 / 75cl6-bottle in-bond trade, November 2020
- 201595critic£16 / 75cl6-bottle in-bond trade, March 2018
- 201190critic£35 / 75clsingle-bottle in-bond trade, July 2018
- 200790drinkers
- 200688drinkers
- 200490drinkers
- 200390drinkers
- Past its windowits window has closed
- Window not recordedthe vintage carries no window, so the meter shows its score alone
- Best scored
- 2017
- 96 / 100 from a critic
- Lowest price
- 2015
- £16 per 75 cl
Price by vintage
One monthly median per vintage, divided by the case size it was quoted in, so the bars are the same unit. These are our own aggregates, not offers: nobody will sell you a median.
Solid: a realised in-bond trade
View as a table
| Vintage | Price / 75cl | Critic score | In drink window | Basis |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018 | £37 | 93.3 | — | per 75cl, from a 6-bottle in-bond trade, November 2022 |
| 2017 | £22 | 96 | No | per 75cl, from a 6-bottle in-bond trade, November 2020 |
| 2015 | £16 | 95 | — | per 75cl, from a 6-bottle in-bond trade, March 2018 |
| 2011 | £35 | 90 | No | per 75cl, from a single-bottle in-bond trade, July 2018 |
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