Pegasus Bay Virtuoso Chardonnay
- White
- New Zealand
- Waipara
- Chardonnay
This record is a provisional match and may describe a different bottling.
- Tracked vintages
- 6
- Community notes
- 69
- Merchant offers
- 34
What we know about this wine
- Critics
- 96/ 1002019 · nearest vintage with a critic score
- Real drinkers
- 83/ 10069 notes, every vintage
- Market price
- £32per 75 cl2019 · nearest vintage with a price · 6-bottle in-bond trade, May 2026
- Drinking window
- 2018–2030peak2016 · 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 16 community ratings, read 2026-08-12. Style: New Zealand Chardonnay.
- Body3.6 / 5
- LightFull
- Acidity3.5 / 5
- SoftCrisp
- Sweetness1.8 / 5
- DrySweet
- Oak · oak, butter, vanilla, caramel
- Earth · honey, smoke, stone, flint, minerals
- Citrus · citrus, lemon, grapefruit, lime, lemon peel
- Ageing (non-oak) · nutty, toast, brioche, biscuit, burnt caramel
- Yeast and lees · cream, oil, banana
- Tree fruit · peach, quince, stone fruit, apricot, green apple
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.
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.
- 2021unit not stated
- 2020unit not stated
- 201996critic£32 / 75cl6-bottle in-bond trade, May 2026
- 201694critic£27 / 75cl6-bottle in-bond trade, January 2026
- 200694drinkers
- 200594drinkers
- Peakinside the middle half of its stated window
- Window not recordedthe vintage carries no window, so the meter shows its score alone
- Best scored
- 2019
- 96 / 100 from a critic
- Drinking now
- 2016
- peak, window 2018–2030
- Lowest price
- 2016
- £27 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
Where to go next
LWIN 1850879