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Kumeu River Mate`s Vineyard Chardonnay 2024
HED02236
75 cl
13.5%
£55.00
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Kumeu River Mate’s Vineyard Chardonnay 2024 is a single-vineyard wine from one of New Zealand`s premier Chardonnay sites. Hand-harvested from low-yielding vines planted in 1990, this vintage exemplifies the vineyard`s character. Fermentation occurs with indigenous yeast, followed by 11 months of maturation in barrel, with 30% new French oak. This wine displays density and concentration, complemented by a profile marked by crisp lemon acidity, contributing to its structure.
97 Robert Parker
The 2024 Maté`s Vineyard Chardonnay is mouthfilling and full, easily the biggest and most powerful of the single-vineyard Chardonnays in this 2024 release. "In terms of quality, 2024 is up there with the best of them. 2022, 2020, 2014..." This feels perhaps as statuesque and thrilling as the best of the Maté`s so far, with intensity that explodes in every direction on the palate—length and width—with spicy top notes and a thunderous base of yellow fruit. The acidity, as usual, coils and weaves its way across the palate, lacing together the fruit and phenolics with seamless intensity. This is very good. - Erin Larkin
17 Jancis Robinson
Full screwcapped bottle 1,349 g. From the Brajkovichs` Maté’s vineyard of 2.49 ha planted in 1990 but Maté died in 1992. Hand-harvested, whole-bunch pressed before 100% spontaneous fermentation in French oak barrels with 100% malo (30% new French oak. Mercurey and Séguin Moreau). 11 months` ageing in barrel. Virused. Their only Mendoza clone (though they are planting some virus-free Mendoza – which is still hen and chicken! – in Hawke`s Bay).Deepest straw colour. A bit more restrained on the nose and then big and rich on the palate. Lots of chew on the palate, too! Still youthful and without the refinement of Hunting Hill. Big and bold on the finish. Exuberant and quite chewy after that great whack of fruit. (JR)
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