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Kumeu River Mates Vineyard Chardonnay 2024
Standard - 75cl
ETA: 6-8 weeks
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- Vintage2024
- ColourWhite
- ProducerKumeu River
- CountryNew Zealand
- RegionAuckland
- Sub RegionKumeu
- Bottle SizeStandard - 75cl
- ABV13.5
- LWIN11073932024
- Avg. Critic Score4.6★★★★★★★★★★
Wine Critic Reviews
Maté Brajkovich’s family purchased this vineyard in 1944, and he reworked the land in 1990 (planting the Mendoza clone). The first grapes were harvested in 1993. As one might expect, knowing the legend of this wine, it is indeed super-closed, tense and introverted. The mid-palate is chewier and denser, yet it also exhibits more floral ripeness. Add to these beguiling ingredients stunning definition and great potential, and you have a benchmark Maté’s vintage.
- Reviewer Name: Matthew Jukes
The complexity and subtlety are most impressive, with honeysuckle, white flower, ripe pear, flint and vanilla bean aromas. Medium-bodied with a tight and phenolic texture and a long, tight finish. Lots of layered mouthfeel and complexity. Fantastic finish. Drink or hold. Screw cap.
Almond-meal aromas with smoky/flinty background and dried flowers/pot-pourri creeping in as it airs. The wine is tremendously refined and graceful with subtle intensity that builds along the palate, with the kind of focused and precise flavour that you see in top burgundies. Very impressive persistence. A lovely wine indeed.
- Reviewer Name: Huon Hooke
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.
- Drinking Window: 2025 - 2039
- Reviewer Name: Erin Larkin
Embryonic with taut, restrained aromas of apple, nectarine and a little white pepper. The palate is surprisingly dense and concentrated and whilst there isn't much fruit showing at this stage, the textural grip, solid underpinning of new oak, and pithy, savoury notes create a beguiling wine. Builds in intensity to a long, sustained finish. Drink from 2032-2042. Tasted Aug 2025.
- Reviewer Name: Jane Skilton MW