Pegasus Bay

Gorgeous grounds. Amazing food and wine! What a beautiful experience. I loved picking out the items in the mini market and be given a basket with picnic items to take out and enjoy the amazing grounds. Way more than just a winery. It’s a full experience that I won’t soon forget.

Great experience. No restaurant menu but pick your choice of cheese, crackers, dip and snacks at bar and staff will pack everything in cute basket as picnic style. Which we love it!

This is a good experience. Build your own picnic and a bottle of wine. Nice soft seats! On a hot day the 🏖️ was perfect. Afterwards enjoy a pleasant walk around the gardens and a small lake with eels.

We had a wonderful wine tasting experience ~ thanks Yanni for her professional and detailed explanation of the great wines in Pegasus bay and gave us good suggestion of food paring with their wine. I love the decoration and garden of this winery ~

The best wine tasting experience in NZ thus far! A vast range of interesting and special wine available, the staff are professional, knowledgeable and friendly. On top of everything, their garden is absolutely mind blowing, so sad the restaurant isn’t open that day, would love to be back for the food.

Drove all the way down from Christchurch to visit Pegasus Bay for its Riesling wines and wasn't disappointed. They offer a tasting of several wines for about 10 NZD which could also be counted into the purchase of a bottle of wine. I enjoyed the Riesling wines the most and the late-harvest ones have varying sweetness which makes excellent dessert wines. The Encore was pretty nice, it was richly sweet like honey and leaves a nice lingering sweet aroma, something that is bound to leave an impression. There is also a much lighter version: The Aria if the Encore is too rich. There is also a garden to stroll around and a deli to chill and relax. The pies by Hope River is pretty delicious. I had the Lamb, Rosemary and Kumara which has nice tender, juicy chunks of lamb and delightful crust. The pricing is reasonable too.

Very pretty winery with gardens and a beautiful lake, there’re ducks, swans, fish and eels in it. Love the way food is provided, you need to pick a cute wooden box to collect a variety of wine pairing snacks like prosciutto, cheese, olives, pickles, bread etc. The kitchen also provide several flavors of homemade meat pies, they taste super yum especially the pie crust, very nice bakery! Pick any indoor or outdoor seats you wish, both are comfortable and relaxing. Staff are friendly and caring. The interior design has some wine bottle creations, and I love the wine related quote written on walls, give you lot of feeling and smiles.

The estate is absolutely stunning, there is plenty of parking and the cellar door is part of a mansion that overlooks the hills, gardens and ponds below. The restaurant here is no longer open which is a shame but the wine is still excellent. Tastings provide you with many options of reds and whites, and it’s free if you spend over a certain limit. Once you’re done with tasting, it’s worth taking a walk in their gardens below, it is amazing and so serene. Only note is that the tasting room gets very very busy, we only had one person serving more than 10 groups at one point, got a little out of hand where you just get poured your wine and they’re off helping the next customer. Gotta be patient!