Community Tasting Note

• Callum's Corkers Likes this wine: 89 points

  February 4, 2018 - Screw cap. Tasted at 9 degrees c.
  
  Back label claims, ''pear, citrus aromas, mouth-filling texture, good length, needs 4-6 yrs bottle maturation.'' I buy all that, this is a Burgundian-style chardonnay with a restrained class, though it's less powerful/concentrated that I remember previous vintages being.
  
  C.....pale straw, looks med-H body.
  
  N....maybe too much wood? Some nice vanilla, peach skin, pears and citrus - as they claim - it's seductive and charming.
  
  T.....yes, it's ''mouth-filling.'' Big soft malo impression, some limestone/clay minerals, sound steely core structure, is pretty dry. There's a good essence of flavour at the end. Very 'French' (for a NZ chardonnay). This Mate's Vineyard label doesn't seem to have the power of their Hunting Hill Vineyard chardonnay, though this is still very good wine. Probably more a Food wine than a Glugger. Not yet mature, but drinking very well right now.
  
  VFM? At around £27 it's no bargain, I'd say it's slightly over-priced.

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2 Comments

• SLIMES commented:

  2/5/18, 2:15 PM - Do you use Lay ad Wheeler at all? They often have some very affordable back-vintages of the Hunting Hill.

• Callum's Corkers commented:

  2/7/18, 4:51 AM - Hi S Limes, I do use Lay n Wheeler, online or phone 'em up, I got some older vintages of my fave Loire Chenins (Gaston Huet) and Pouilly-Fume (Ch Baron de L) from them. They ain't cheap, but class costs, and they seem to hold stock from good vintages. BTW, I find winespectator.com these most reliable source of Harvest Reports/Vintage Reports on the net. You get a detailed report of the entire season's conditions, just google, for say 2010, ''harvest report for Italy 2010'' and it'll come up. Type in any country and year you need. Vintage details are so important: you can have a classy winery but in a crap year even a skilled team can't make a silk purse from a sour's ear.

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