Nose: The nose is clean, fresh, and balanced with pears, vanilla beans, red apples, creams, yellow florals, and some ginger notes. The balance is impeccable, but the nose does lack a little bit of depth.
Taste: Medium+ bodied with medium+ acidity. The feel has some density to it, but it isn't too big with the acidity showing a crisp quality. The balance of the nose carries through to the feel with pears, vanilla beans, red apples, creams, saline, and ginger.
Overall: This is a wonderful introduction-level Chardonnay from Kumeu River. It shows off pretty and fresh fruits with excellent balance and good depth.
Nose: The nose is fresh and electric, filled with nectarines, white peaches, limes, meyer lemons, ginger, red apples, white florals, mineral tones, and a touch of matchstick. There is a lot of complexity and balance to the nose with a good bit of depth to boot.
Taste: Medium+ bodied with high acidity. The acidity is crisp and refreshing with the feel showing off a refined sensibility along with meyer lemons, red apples, mineral tones, limes, ginger, white peaches, and some matchstick notes.
Overall: This is a wonderful Chardonnay that feels like it has to room to grow. Right now, it shows off a lot of freshness and lift with good depth and balance. The acid still has some sting to it and the tones could meld together a little bit more. But, that is quibbling as this a great wine that provides joy now and easily has the ability to provide more joy down the road.
Nose: The nose evokes thoughts of springtime with white peaches, pears, apples, mineral notes, white fruits, some custard, and saline tones. There is excellent depth with a feminine side to the tones.
Taste: Medium+ bodied with medium+ acidity. The acidity has a lot of cut and youthfulness to it with white peaches, pears, apples, mineral notes, custard, and some saline.
Overall: This is a lovely Chardonnay that is still quite youthful. The tones are fresh and lively on the nose and palate, but they aren't in full harmony yet.
Nose: The nose shows a robustness to it with red apples, match stick, quince, peaches, spiced pears, hazelnuts, yellow florals, ginger, and crushed rocks. There is excellent depth with a quasi-meursault take to the nose.
Taste: Full bodied with medium+ acidity. The acidity is refreshing and integrated with the feel showing an elegant side along with pears, red apples, peaches, hazelnuts, ginger, ember notes, and quince.
Overall: This is drinking in a great place right now. It is still youthful, but it is coming into itself as the acidity is balanced and fresh.
Nose: The nose is well balanced, aromatic, and refined with red apples, custard, vanilla beans, oranges, quince, pears, mineral notes, and stone fruits. There is excellent depth with a layering effect and maturity to the tones.
Taste: Full bodied with medium+ acidity. The acidity is well balanced and beautifully integrated while the feel is textured and refined with red apples, custard, oranges, quince, stone fruits, minerals, and some smoke tones.
Overall: This is a beautiful and mature Chardonnay. It is drinking at its peak right now, but there is plenty there for it to age further. It shows off class and depth across the nose and palate with an excellent mix of primary and secondary tones.
Nose: The nose is pure class and elegance and filled with ginger, stone fruits, bosc pears, yellow florals, peaches, cream tones, nectarines, nougat, and red apples. There is a lot of depth along with a maturity to the tones.
Taste: Full bodied with crisp, medium+ acidity. There is some density to the feel, but with an elegance to it along with stone fruits, bosc pear, yellow florals, peaches, creams, nougat, and red apples.
Overall: This is a stunning Chardonnay that is beautifully at it's peak. It shows off impeccable balance and elegance with a lot of depth across the nose and palate.
Nose: The nose is bright and lively with strawberries, red fruits, plum, raspberries, and rose petals. The nose is fragrant, but it lacks some depth and the tones are a bit simple.
Taste: Medium bodied with fresh, medium+ acidity and medium tannins that are a little coarse. The feel is balanced and light with strawberries, red fruits, plums, and raspberries.
Overall: This is a good and easy going, affordable Pinot Noir. It shows off bright red fruits with good balance, though it lacks a bit of depth. This is perfect for drinking now to enjoy the red fruits and liveliness it possesses right now.
Nose: There is a bit of reduction immediately on the nose, but with some swirling it pulls back into dark red cherries, raspberries, violets, roses, earth tones, plums, dark red berries, and a touch of tobacco. There is excellent complexity, but it does lack a slight bit of depth.
Taste: Medium bodied with tart, medium+ acidity and chewy, medium+ tannins. The feel is well balanced and lithe with dark red cherries, raspberries, violets, earth tones, plums, and tobacco.
Overall: This is an excellent, though quite young, Pinot Noir. There is good complexity and balance with a sour side to the red fruits. It does need some air right now, but it will be better in 3-5 years.
2017 Kumeu River Chardonnay Village 89 Points
New Zealand, North Island, Auckland, Kumeu
Nose: The nose is clean, fresh, and balanced with pears, vanilla beans, red apples, creams, yellow florals, and some ginger notes. The balance is impeccable, but the nose does lack a little bit of depth.
Taste: Medium+ bodied with medium+ acidity. The feel has some density to it, but it isn't too big with the acidity showing a crisp quality. The balance of the nose carries through to the feel with pears, vanilla beans, red apples, creams, saline, and ginger.
Overall: This is a wonderful introduction-level Chardonnay from Kumeu River. It shows off pretty and fresh fruits with excellent balance and good depth.
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2017 Kumeu River Chardonnay Hunting Hill 93 Points
New Zealand, North Island, Auckland, Kumeu
Nose: The nose is fresh and electric, filled with nectarines, white peaches, limes, meyer lemons, ginger, red apples, white florals, mineral tones, and a touch of matchstick. There is a lot of complexity and balance to the nose with a good bit of depth to boot.
Taste: Medium+ bodied with high acidity. The acidity is crisp and refreshing with the feel showing off a refined sensibility along with meyer lemons, red apples, mineral tones, limes, ginger, white peaches, and some matchstick notes.
Overall: This is a wonderful Chardonnay that feels like it has to room to grow. Right now, it shows off a lot of freshness and lift with good depth and balance. The acid still has some sting to it and the tones could meld together a little bit more. But, that is quibbling as this a great wine that provides joy now and easily has the ability to provide more joy down the road.
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2017 Kumeu River Chardonnay Maté's Vineyard 91 Points
New Zealand, North Island, Auckland, Kumeu
Nose: The nose evokes thoughts of springtime with white peaches, pears, apples, mineral notes, white fruits, some custard, and saline tones. There is excellent depth with a feminine side to the tones.
Taste: Medium+ bodied with medium+ acidity. The acidity has a lot of cut and youthfulness to it with white peaches, pears, apples, mineral notes, custard, and some saline.
Overall: This is a lovely Chardonnay that is still quite youthful. The tones are fresh and lively on the nose and palate, but they aren't in full harmony yet.
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2015 Kumeu River Chardonnay Coddington 92 Points
New Zealand, North Island, Auckland, Kumeu
Nose: The nose shows a robustness to it with red apples, match stick, quince, peaches, spiced pears, hazelnuts, yellow florals, ginger, and crushed rocks. There is excellent depth with a quasi-meursault take to the nose.
Taste: Full bodied with medium+ acidity. The acidity is refreshing and integrated with the feel showing an elegant side along with pears, red apples, peaches, hazelnuts, ginger, ember notes, and quince.
Overall: This is drinking in a great place right now. It is still youthful, but it is coming into itself as the acidity is balanced and fresh.
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2007 Kumeu River Chardonnay Hunting Hill 92 Points
New Zealand, North Island, Auckland, Kumeu
Nose: The nose is well balanced, aromatic, and refined with red apples, custard, vanilla beans, oranges, quince, pears, mineral notes, and stone fruits. There is excellent depth with a layering effect and maturity to the tones.
Taste: Full bodied with medium+ acidity. The acidity is well balanced and beautifully integrated while the feel is textured and refined with red apples, custard, oranges, quince, stone fruits, minerals, and some smoke tones.
Overall: This is a beautiful and mature Chardonnay. It is drinking at its peak right now, but there is plenty there for it to age further. It shows off class and depth across the nose and palate with an excellent mix of primary and secondary tones.
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2006 Kumeu River Chardonnay Maté's Vineyard 94 Points
New Zealand, North Island, Auckland, Kumeu
Nose: The nose is pure class and elegance and filled with ginger, stone fruits, bosc pears, yellow florals, peaches, cream tones, nectarines, nougat, and red apples. There is a lot of depth along with a maturity to the tones.
Taste: Full bodied with crisp, medium+ acidity. There is some density to the feel, but with an elegance to it along with stone fruits, bosc pear, yellow florals, peaches, creams, nougat, and red apples.
Overall: This is a stunning Chardonnay that is beautifully at it's peak. It shows off impeccable balance and elegance with a lot of depth across the nose and palate.
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2018 Kumeu River Pinot Noir Village 87 Points
New Zealand, North Island, Auckland, Kumeu
Nose: The nose is bright and lively with strawberries, red fruits, plum, raspberries, and rose petals. The nose is fragrant, but it lacks some depth and the tones are a bit simple.
Taste: Medium bodied with fresh, medium+ acidity and medium tannins that are a little coarse. The feel is balanced and light with strawberries, red fruits, plums, and raspberries.
Overall: This is a good and easy going, affordable Pinot Noir. It shows off bright red fruits with good balance, though it lacks a bit of depth. This is perfect for drinking now to enjoy the red fruits and liveliness it possesses right now.
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2015 Kumeu River Pinot Noir Hunting Hill 91 Points
New Zealand, North Island, Auckland, Kumeu
Nose: There is a bit of reduction immediately on the nose, but with some swirling it pulls back into dark red cherries, raspberries, violets, roses, earth tones, plums, dark red berries, and a touch of tobacco. There is excellent complexity, but it does lack a slight bit of depth.
Taste: Medium bodied with tart, medium+ acidity and chewy, medium+ tannins. The feel is well balanced and lithe with dark red cherries, raspberries, violets, earth tones, plums, and tobacco.
Overall: This is an excellent, though quite young, Pinot Noir. There is good complexity and balance with a sour side to the red fruits. It does need some air right now, but it will be better in 3-5 years.
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