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A New Zealand Chardonnay from Kumeu River, 2025 vintage.
Stone fruit
Butter
Oak
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- Wine
- Style
- New Zealand
- Origin
- Stone fruit
- Butter
- Oak
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Kumeu River Mates Chardonnay 2025
$109.99each
The story of Kumeu River Mates Chardonnay 2025
In 1990 Maté Brajkovich planted a new Chardonnay vineyard at Kumeu on the site of the family's original vines, bought in 1944. He died before the first crop came off, picked in March 1993, and the six-acre block was named Maté's Vineyard in his honour. The first single-vineyard wine from it was released in November 1994, fifty years after the family arrived in the district.
Every vine is Mendoza clone, which sets small, intense "hen and chicken" berries and keeps yields low. Picking is by hand, the bunches are pressed whole, and fermentation starts on native yeast entirely in French oak. All of the wine completes malolactic fermentation and spends eleven months in barrel before bottling under screwcap.
The 2025 harvest ran dry from early February to 17 March. The nose offers almond meal, white peach, lime and cut fennel over white flowers. The palate is smooth and mealy with a honey gloss and calm, juicy acidity, and it finishes saline and flinty with excellent length.
Open it with crayfish, scallops or veal in a cream sauce, or put a few bottles away, because this is a Chardonnay built to hold for a decade.
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