Mild spring weather resulted in the buds on the vines bursting into leaf early. These conditions continued and warm weather over flowering ensured a good but not excessive crop of fruit set on the vines. The summer was hot and the autumn long, lingering and dry. These conditions ensured beautifully ripe and healthy fruit at harvest. The semillon was the ripest that we have experienced...

1998 was a perfect vintage for chardonnay at Pegasus Bay. Early bud burst of the vines in the spring combined with warm weather over flowering, a hot summer and a long lingering dry autumn caused by El Niño, ensured optimal fruit development and ripening. The cool nights helped retain good natural acidity...

1998 was an incredibly good vintage for all varieties including riesling. It was a very hot summer and a long dry autumn. The riesling reached an excellent degree of ripeness before some of the most perfect noble rot we have seen began to develop...

Mild spring weather resulted in the buds on the vines bursting into leaf early. These conditions continued and warm weather over flowering ensured a good but not excessive crop of fruit set on the vines.

PRIMA DONNA - Principle female singer in opera. Pinot Noir is the Prima Donna of grape varieties, and is by nature temperamental...

The summers of 1998 and 1995 were the two warmest of the decade. Mid summer heat is important for the development of ripe tannins and flavours, both of which are in abundance in this wine.