Pegasus Bay’s second label Main Divide maintains the same Donaldson approach to winemaking and represents exceptional value for money. Its philosophy is based on individuality and harmony. The aim is to grow grapes of the highest quality which fully express the features of the vineyard and to handle these with the utmost respect. The results are distinctive, vibrant wines with lively fruit flavours, which at the same time are integrated and harmonious.

Main Divide Chardonnay 2022
Stylish and engaging, the complex bouquet shows crunchy apple, apricot, roasted nut and lemon zest aromas with a lovely gun smoke overtone. The palate delivers excellent weight and persistency, wonderfully supported by refined texture and vibrant acidity. Harmonious and structured with a lengthy focused finish.
Rating: 93 Points
Source: Sam Kim, Wine Orbit, www.wineorbit.co.nz

Main Divide Chardonnay 2022
Main Divide Chardonnay 2022 This is very flinty with sliced lemons and apples. Raw ginger. Medium body, and a fresh finish. Reductive and stylish. Chablis-like.
Rating: 92 Points
Source: James Suckling Wine Reviews, www.jamessuckling.com

Main Divide Chardonnay 2022
An impressive bouquet with a reductive gun-flinty quality, ripe, fresh and new too with aromas of apples and white peach, citrus peel and spice. Flavours on the palate mirror the bouquet with a satin texture, contrasting acid line and a nutty-biscuity quality. The gun-flint character is persistent adding a quality I enjoy in this example. Well made
Rating: 92 Points
Source: Cameron Douglas MS, www.camdouglasms.com

Main Divide Chardonnay 2022
Bright, even, pale straw yellow. The nose is full, revealing aromas of struck match, roasted nuts, stonefruit, citrus and pastry. Medium-full bodied, aromas of stonefruit melded with citrus peels, almonds, custard Danish underlined struck match and stony minerals. The wine is complex and savoury, enlivened by a bright acid line that provides length and tension.
Rating: 18.5-/20
Source: Candice Chow, Raymond Chan Wine Reviews

Main Divide Chardonnay 2022
Warmer days and cool nights equal great flavour development in grapes and this full bodied, creamy and citrusy Chardonnay is the embodiment of that, offering outstanding flavours every vintage. Here is a wine that consistently offers extraordinarily good drinking for a modest price. The grapes were given all the treatment of a higher quality, lower volume wine; fermented in French oak barriques with natural yeasts found on the grapes then matured in barrel til late spring. Spontaneous malolactic fermentation softens develops further depth in the wine softening the wine’s natural acidity. Delicious drinking and a real show stopper even if it cost a lot more.
Ratin: 18.5/20
Source: Joelle Thomson, Select Magazine, Incorporating WineNZ

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