Kumeu River
The Brajkovich family relocated from Croatia and soon became the founding family of the wine industry in New Zealand. After years of growth and development, producing over 250,000 bottles a year. Kumeu River are internationally recognised for establishing fine quality non-Burgundy Chardonnay.
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Auckland | 1 | 97 (WA) |
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£754.18 |
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Wine Advocate (97)The 2013 Coddington Chardonnay is delicious, complex and nutty, composed and sleek. This shows an intensity of fruit and length that I find utterly attractive, all of it swathed in a cloak of chalky minerality. There's not a lot more to be said of this; it is both calm and capacious, enduring and savory. This gets a big yes from me. |
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Auckland | 2 | 95 (WA) |
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£670.87 |
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Wine Advocate (95)The 2014 Coddington Chardonnay leads with beeswax and brine, pressed white flowers, crushed shells and chalky minerality. The wine is restrained and elegant, mouthfilling in its intensity and showing spicy prowess through the finish. It's very, very good, excellent, in fact. Notions of oak-derived (?) bacon fat through the finish boost complexity and interest. There's plenty of time left to go here. |
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Auckland | 100 | 95 (JS) |
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£223.49 |
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James Suckling (95)The complexity and flintiness are so enticing, with sliced apples, lemons, minerals and gunpowder. Full-bodied, dense and intense, with subtle brioche, cooked lemon and apple notes. Racy and steely but with richness underneath. Some lemongrass. So complex. Drink or hold. Screw cap. |
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Auckland | 2 | - |
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£200.44 |
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Auckland | 1 | 91 (VN) |
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£298.87 |
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Vinous (91)There's a sense of calm to the 2020 Chardonnay Estate, a blend of six different sites. It is mellow, offering a plump cushion of Chardonnay goodness on the midpalate but not becoming heavy nor opulent, its youthful edge and fresh acidity tying it together into a precise finish. It offers classic subtle Chardonnay characters of Golden Delicious apple, white nectarine and a mere whiff of oak-derived smokiness. Well constructed, satisfying and elegant. |
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Auckland | 1 | 91 (TRR) |
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£190.84 |
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The Real Review (91)Bright, tangy, high-energy wine with grapefruit, green apple, oyster shell and lemon blossom flavours supported by taut acidity that gives the wine a nod in the direction of Chablis. |
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Auckland | 4 | 91 (TRR) |
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£175.24 |
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The Real Review (91)Bright, tangy, high-energy wine with grapefruit, green apple, oyster shell and lemon blossom flavours supported by taut acidity that gives the wine a nod in the direction of Chablis. |
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Auckland | 4 | 93 (JS) |
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£189.89 |
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James Suckling (93)This is fresh, crunchy and clean, with mineral and spice notes and plenty of salty undertones. Sliced lemons and apples. Medium-bodied with a fresh finish. Drink now. Screw cap. |
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Auckland | 1 | 95 (WA) |
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£590.47 |
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Wine Advocate (95)The 2015 Hunting Hill Chardonnay displays a youthful restraint, yet nonetheless delivers an exciting array of stone fruit, pink grapefruit, ginger and marzipan notes with subtle hints of orange blossoms, crushed stones and lightly buttered toast. Medium bodied and tightly woven, is has a lively backbone supportting the generous flavor layers, finishing with great length and depth. As usual - just gorgeous! |
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Auckland | 1 | - |
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£89.60 |
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Auckland | 2 | 18.5+ (MJ) |
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£302.44 |
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Matthew Jukes (18.5+)The winemaking regime is identical to the preceding wines – hand-harvested, whole-bunch pressed, wild yeast fermented in 100% oak, and it spends 11 months in barrel (25% new) after malo. This time, a piercingly fresh bouquet is driven along briskly by a strident citrus theme. Super-tasty, really long and with an amazing volume of flavour, this is my favourite of the ‘Premier Cru’ wines. Grab some now, for fear of missing out. You can drink it today without the wine police visiting you, but it will sing in a couple of years and hold easily for a decade! |
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Auckland | 3 | 94 (TRR) |
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£296.44 |
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The Real Review (94)Fragrant, aromatic chardonnay with slightly green tree fruit flavours, citrus/lime and a backbone of nicely integrated and pleasantly vibrant acidity that helps drive a lengthy finish. A smattering of nutty yeast lees adds extra interest. |
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Auckland | 100 | 94 (TRR) |
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£279.64 |
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The Real Review (94)Fragrant, aromatic chardonnay with slightly green tree fruit flavours, citrus/lime and a backbone of nicely integrated and pleasantly vibrant acidity that helps drive a lengthy finish. A smattering of nutty yeast lees adds extra interest. |
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Auckland | 100 | 96 (JS) |
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£277.49 |
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James Suckling (96)Aromas of apples, white peaches and steel with hints of lemongrass, fresh basil, flint and white flowers. Medium- to full-bodied with a tight and dense center palate and a crunchy and flavorful finish. Energetic acidity. So fresh yet dense at the same time. |
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Auckland | 1 | 93 (VN) |
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£119.05 |
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Vinous (93)The 2012 Maté’s Vineyard Chardonnay has a much more expressive bouquet than the 2011 at the moment, offering vivacious yellow plum, mineral, flint and smoke aromas that gain momentum with aeration. The poised, focused palate is very well balanced with a fine bead of acidity and real precision toward the detailed finish. This is a very sophisticated New World Chardonnay. Tasted at the Kumeu River Chardonnay vertical in London. |
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Auckland | 1 | 96 (WA) |
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£89.60 |
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Wine Advocate (96)The 2014 Maté's Vineyard Chardonnay performs just as you'd expect, showing the intersection of a ripe vintage through the lens of this powerful vineyard planted to the Mendoza clone. Unlike the youthful rambunctiousness of the 2014 Hunting Hill, this is complete. It has found stillness and calm in the 11 years from harvest, and the wine feels merely as if it is settling into its long future. Like sitting in a comfortable chair, there's no saying when you might get up. This has that same patient air about it. |
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Auckland | 1 | 94 (WA) |
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£104.00 |
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Wine Advocate (94)Maté's is usually the tightest, most linear of the KR Chards, and that's again the case. The 2016 Mate's Vineyard Chardonnay is marked by smoky new oak, but there's also pineapple and grapefruit notes that create a crisp, acidic spine. Draped off of that are hints of white peaches, roasted hazelnuts and tangerine. There's an almost briny zestiness to the lingering finish that sets it apart from the winery's other single-vineyard bottlings. |
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Auckland | 1 | 97 (WA) |
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£99.20 |
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Wine Advocate (97)The 2017 Mate's Vineyard Chardonnay shows that this wine needs time to come into its own. All the rambunctious energy and barely bridled power of the wine on release and close to it is harnessed by time. It shows a previously bucking brumby to be a purebred stallion, one made for speed and endurance. Excellent. It remains savory, the depth of complexity only deepening with time. I love this as much as I love the Hunting Hill—that wine being restrained and composed, this being a fete of power and concentration. |
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Auckland | 1 | 96 (WA) |
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£480.04 |
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Wine Advocate (96)The 2019 Maté's Vineyard Chardonnay is straight out of the blocks with power and intensity. It is concentrated, with a scintillating score of gravelly phenolics that drag the fruit characters out over the palate. It veritably glitters with intense fruit, which is tropical without being mushy or sweet at all. The oak feels toasty, and the fruit and the acid are all in harmony. This is impressive plus. |
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Auckland | 1 | 97 (VN) |
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£541.24 |
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Vinous (97)The Chardonnay Mate's Vineyard, appears to have gone on a yoga retreat in 2020: not only is its usual powerful self, but it's remarkably zen too, exuding a sense of calmness. It is full-bodied, round and offers fruit ripeness, but the propensity of the Mendoza clone to hen-and-chicks means that it retains a sense of nerve, with powerful citrusy acidity providing the needle that pulls a tight thread through this wine's core. The 2020 is still far too young, and it is aromatically shy, but even in its full mature glory, it won't exhibit aromatic fireworks – nor should it. This is Chardonnay. Okay, you might detect lemon and limes, white flowers and just-ripe white nectarine, with 30% new oak imbuing an additional layer of savoriness, but when it comes down to it, this wine's trump card is in its shape, texture and persistence. |
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Auckland | 100 | 97 (JS) |
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£290.69 |
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James Suckling (97)Very steely and floral, with brightness and impressive aromas of honeysuckle, lemongrass and just a touch of cream. Medium- to full-bodied with layered and creamy phenolics that give a lovely, almost velvety texture to the wine, and then the end is so crisp and minerally. Driven at the end. Needs time to come together. This will be so complex in three to four years. Best after 2027. |
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Auckland | 6 | 94 (TRR) |
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£172.84 |
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The Real Review (94)Bright, fresh, elegant wine with oyster shell, grapefruit/citrus, green apple and spicy oak flavours with a vibrant backbone of mouth-watering acidity and peppery phenolics. High energy wine that is drinking well upon release. |
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Auckland | 3 | 94 (JS) |
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£175.49 |
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James Suckling (94)A tight, focused and dense white. Sliced cooked apples, minerals and stone, with hints of dried mangoes. It’s medium-bodied and focused with a flavorful finish. Lime undertones. Drink or hold. |
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Auckland | 5 | - |
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£300.58 |
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Auckland | 2 | - |
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£202.18 |
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Auckland | 1 | 97 (WA) |
In Bond
£590.00 |
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Wine Advocate (97)The 2013 Coddington Chardonnay is delicious, complex and nutty, composed and sleek. This shows an intensity of fruit and length that I find utterly attractive, all of it swathed in a cloak of chalky minerality. There's not a lot more to be said of this; it is both calm and capacious, enduring and savory. This gets a big yes from me. |
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Auckland | 2 | 95 (WA) |
In Bond
£527.00 |
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Wine Advocate (95)The 2014 Coddington Chardonnay leads with beeswax and brine, pressed white flowers, crushed shells and chalky minerality. The wine is restrained and elegant, mouthfilling in its intensity and showing spicy prowess through the finish. It's very, very good, excellent, in fact. Notions of oak-derived (?) bacon fat through the finish boost complexity and interest. There's plenty of time left to go here. |
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Auckland | 100 | 95 (JS) |
In Bond
£167.00 |
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James Suckling (95)The complexity and flintiness are so enticing, with sliced apples, lemons, minerals and gunpowder. Full-bodied, dense and intense, with subtle brioche, cooked lemon and apple notes. Racy and steely but with richness underneath. Some lemongrass. So complex. Drink or hold. Screw cap. |
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Auckland | 2 | - |
In Bond
£151.00 |
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Auckland | 1 | 91 (VN) |
In Bond
£217.00 |
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Vinous (91)There's a sense of calm to the 2020 Chardonnay Estate, a blend of six different sites. It is mellow, offering a plump cushion of Chardonnay goodness on the midpalate but not becoming heavy nor opulent, its youthful edge and fresh acidity tying it together into a precise finish. It offers classic subtle Chardonnay characters of Golden Delicious apple, white nectarine and a mere whiff of oak-derived smokiness. Well constructed, satisfying and elegant. |
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Auckland | 1 | 91 (TRR) |
In Bond
£143.00 |
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The Real Review (91)Bright, tangy, high-energy wine with grapefruit, green apple, oyster shell and lemon blossom flavours supported by taut acidity that gives the wine a nod in the direction of Chablis. |
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Auckland | 4 | 91 (TRR) |
In Bond
£130.00 |
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The Real Review (91)Bright, tangy, high-energy wine with grapefruit, green apple, oyster shell and lemon blossom flavours supported by taut acidity that gives the wine a nod in the direction of Chablis. |
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Auckland | 4 | 93 (JS) |
In Bond
£139.00 |
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James Suckling (93)This is fresh, crunchy and clean, with mineral and spice notes and plenty of salty undertones. Sliced lemons and apples. Medium-bodied with a fresh finish. Drink now. Screw cap. |
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Auckland | 1 | 95 (WA) |
In Bond
£460.00 |
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Wine Advocate (95)The 2015 Hunting Hill Chardonnay displays a youthful restraint, yet nonetheless delivers an exciting array of stone fruit, pink grapefruit, ginger and marzipan notes with subtle hints of orange blossoms, crushed stones and lightly buttered toast. Medium bodied and tightly woven, is has a lively backbone supportting the generous flavor layers, finishing with great length and depth. As usual - just gorgeous! |
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Auckland | 1 | - |
In Bond
£72.00 |
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Auckland | 2 | 18.5+ (MJ) |
In Bond
£236.00 |
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Matthew Jukes (18.5+)The winemaking regime is identical to the preceding wines – hand-harvested, whole-bunch pressed, wild yeast fermented in 100% oak, and it spends 11 months in barrel (25% new) after malo. This time, a piercingly fresh bouquet is driven along briskly by a strident citrus theme. Super-tasty, really long and with an amazing volume of flavour, this is my favourite of the ‘Premier Cru’ wines. Grab some now, for fear of missing out. You can drink it today without the wine police visiting you, but it will sing in a couple of years and hold easily for a decade! |
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Auckland | 3 | 94 (TRR) |
In Bond
£231.00 |
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The Real Review (94)Fragrant, aromatic chardonnay with slightly green tree fruit flavours, citrus/lime and a backbone of nicely integrated and pleasantly vibrant acidity that helps drive a lengthy finish. A smattering of nutty yeast lees adds extra interest. |
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Auckland | 100 | 94 (TRR) |
In Bond
£217.00 |
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The Real Review (94)Fragrant, aromatic chardonnay with slightly green tree fruit flavours, citrus/lime and a backbone of nicely integrated and pleasantly vibrant acidity that helps drive a lengthy finish. A smattering of nutty yeast lees adds extra interest. |
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Auckland | 100 | 96 (JS) |
In Bond
£212.00 |
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James Suckling (96)Aromas of apples, white peaches and steel with hints of lemongrass, fresh basil, flint and white flowers. Medium- to full-bodied with a tight and dense center palate and a crunchy and flavorful finish. Energetic acidity. So fresh yet dense at the same time. |
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Auckland | 1 | 93 (VN) |
Inc. VAT
£115.20 |
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Vinous (93)The 2012 Maté’s Vineyard Chardonnay has a much more expressive bouquet than the 2011 at the moment, offering vivacious yellow plum, mineral, flint and smoke aromas that gain momentum with aeration. The poised, focused palate is very well balanced with a fine bead of acidity and real precision toward the detailed finish. This is a very sophisticated New World Chardonnay. Tasted at the Kumeu River Chardonnay vertical in London. |
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Auckland | 1 | 96 (WA) |
In Bond
£72.00 |
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Wine Advocate (96)The 2014 Maté's Vineyard Chardonnay performs just as you'd expect, showing the intersection of a ripe vintage through the lens of this powerful vineyard planted to the Mendoza clone. Unlike the youthful rambunctiousness of the 2014 Hunting Hill, this is complete. It has found stillness and calm in the 11 years from harvest, and the wine feels merely as if it is settling into its long future. Like sitting in a comfortable chair, there's no saying when you might get up. This has that same patient air about it. |
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Auckland | 1 | 94 (WA) |
In Bond
£84.00 |
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Wine Advocate (94)Maté's is usually the tightest, most linear of the KR Chards, and that's again the case. The 2016 Mate's Vineyard Chardonnay is marked by smoky new oak, but there's also pineapple and grapefruit notes that create a crisp, acidic spine. Draped off of that are hints of white peaches, roasted hazelnuts and tangerine. There's an almost briny zestiness to the lingering finish that sets it apart from the winery's other single-vineyard bottlings. |
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Auckland | 1 | 97 (WA) |
In Bond
£80.00 |
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Wine Advocate (97)The 2017 Mate's Vineyard Chardonnay shows that this wine needs time to come into its own. All the rambunctious energy and barely bridled power of the wine on release and close to it is harnessed by time. It shows a previously bucking brumby to be a purebred stallion, one made for speed and endurance. Excellent. It remains savory, the depth of complexity only deepening with time. I love this as much as I love the Hunting Hill—that wine being restrained and composed, this being a fete of power and concentration. |
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Auckland | 1 | 96 (WA) |
In Bond
£384.00 |
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Wine Advocate (96)The 2019 Maté's Vineyard Chardonnay is straight out of the blocks with power and intensity. It is concentrated, with a scintillating score of gravelly phenolics that drag the fruit characters out over the palate. It veritably glitters with intense fruit, which is tropical without being mushy or sweet at all. The oak feels toasty, and the fruit and the acid are all in harmony. This is impressive plus. |
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Auckland | 1 | 97 (VN) |
In Bond
£435.00 |
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Vinous (97)The Chardonnay Mate's Vineyard, appears to have gone on a yoga retreat in 2020: not only is its usual powerful self, but it's remarkably zen too, exuding a sense of calmness. It is full-bodied, round and offers fruit ripeness, but the propensity of the Mendoza clone to hen-and-chicks means that it retains a sense of nerve, with powerful citrusy acidity providing the needle that pulls a tight thread through this wine's core. The 2020 is still far too young, and it is aromatically shy, but even in its full mature glory, it won't exhibit aromatic fireworks – nor should it. This is Chardonnay. Okay, you might detect lemon and limes, white flowers and just-ripe white nectarine, with 30% new oak imbuing an additional layer of savoriness, but when it comes down to it, this wine's trump card is in its shape, texture and persistence. |
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Auckland | 100 | 97 (JS) |
In Bond
£223.00 |
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James Suckling (97)Very steely and floral, with brightness and impressive aromas of honeysuckle, lemongrass and just a touch of cream. Medium- to full-bodied with layered and creamy phenolics that give a lovely, almost velvety texture to the wine, and then the end is so crisp and minerally. Driven at the end. Needs time to come together. This will be so complex in three to four years. Best after 2027. |
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Auckland | 6 | 94 (TRR) |
In Bond
£128.00 |
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The Real Review (94)Bright, fresh, elegant wine with oyster shell, grapefruit/citrus, green apple and spicy oak flavours with a vibrant backbone of mouth-watering acidity and peppery phenolics. High energy wine that is drinking well upon release. |
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Auckland | 3 | 94 (JS) |
In Bond
£127.00 |
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James Suckling (94)A tight, focused and dense white. Sliced cooked apples, minerals and stone, with hints of dried mangoes. It’s medium-bodied and focused with a flavorful finish. Lime undertones. Drink or hold. |
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Auckland | 5 | - |
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£212.00 |
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Auckland | 2 | - |
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£130.00 |
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