Pegasus Bay Encore Noble Riesling 2017 375ml

96 POINTS

Sam Kim - Wine Orbit

This is totally delicious; the opulent bouquet shows grilled mango, honey, orange marmalade and cake spice aromas, leading to a sumptuous palate that's packed by dried fruit intensity and seductive sweetness. It's creamy and velvety with refreshing acidity, finishing persistent and gratifying. 375ml. www.pegasusbay.com.

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Erin Larkin - Wine Advocate

The 2017 Encore Noble Riesling leads with white chocolate, honeycomb, salted pink grapefruit, hints of white miso, sea salt, sourdough crust, white pepper, marmalade and cold (salted, whipped) buttered white toast. The wine is just so delicious. This was a very challenging vintage otherwise, with cyclone Debbie doing some busy work around the place. 160 grams per liter of residual sugar.

94 POINTS

Rebecca Gibb MW - Vinous

The 2017 Riesling Encore Noble does botrytis they way it's supposed to be done: all marmalade, spice, honey and good VA lift on the nose, followed up with a luscious party for the mouth. If only you could spread this on toast – it would be delicious. Failing that, paté on toast would be a great pairing, or a gorgeous tarte Tatin . It's just softening its edges thanks to time in bottle, but it's still marvelously young and has another two decades in it. Pristine acidity finds its way through the residual sugar on the long, spun-sugar-basket- and orange-laden finish.

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James Suckling

Orange marmalade, dried grapes and citrus blossom followed by honey, toffee and candied ginger slices. Lusciously sweet, full-bodied wine with vivid acidity which balances out the palate. Rather concentrated and complex wine with fascinating fragrance and aromatics. Sustainable. Drink or hold. Screw cap.

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Dave Brookes - Halliday's Wine Companion

Deep, rich gold in the glass with aromas of apricot marmalade, toffee apple, candied citrus rind, peach melba, fresh and dried honey, pressed flowers, sweet iced tea and yellow plum essence. Gloriously sweet and unctuous with lip-smacking candied citrus and honey-soaked baked apricots and soft spice on the long finish. Super stuff.