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White
2017 Kumeu River Chardonnay Estate
Chardonnay
- New Zealand
- North Island
- Auckland
- Kumeu
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Community Tasting Notes 47
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dcbell Likes this wine: 93 points
April 22, 2024 - Quite a bready, pastry filled nose with ripe stone fruit, peach and apricot. Some reductive struck match type notes, a little gunsmoke and broken rocks the same register. Intense and attractive. Palate continues in the same ilk, rich yet lithe and quite a lot of complexity and length with a spice box kick in the mid palate - nutmeg maybe. A little chew makes it very food friendly but it’s supremely balanced regardless. Such good VFM in the context of world class Chardonnay.
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foyfrcs Likes this wine: 90 points
April 7, 2024 - Still drinking very well almost 2 years down the line from the previous tasting.
Toast, tropical fruits still evident.
Well balanced, medium acidity.
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PT insurgent wrote:
March 30, 2024 - Tasty wine, wood notes, reduction, fruit all come together. Zero idea how this will age w/ the screw cap.
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kingkanu wrote:
January 1, 2024 - Some struck match on the nose, quite a good white burgundy impression, this was really impressive for the level and price, worth cellaring for a few years if that’s what you like
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df1988 Likes this wine: 92 points
November 4, 2023 - Very nice with blue cheese, radicchio and pancetta pasta. The french oak is quite palpable but not in a bad way. I got more lemon than lime. Lovely.
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By Alistair Cooper MW
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By Jancis Robinson, MW
9/21/2018 (link)(Kumeu River, Estate Chardonnay Kumeu White) Subscribe to see review text.
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By James Suckling
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Wine Definition
- Vintage 2017
- Type White
- Producer Kumeu River
- Varietal Chardonnay
- Designation Estate
- Vineyard n/a
- Country New Zealand
- Region North Island
- SubRegion Auckland
- Appellation Kumeu
- UPC Codes 416504004624, 9416504004634
Community Holdings
- Pending Delivery 26 (2%)
- In Cellars 597 (45%)
- Consumed 712 (53%)
Food Pairing
Community Recommendations
chicken w/ pesto, chile verde, pork w/ apples, turkey, wild mushrooms stuffed w/ garlic lemon & parsleyWho Likes This Wine
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- FamilyKumeu River Chardonnay Estate
- ProducerKumeu River
- VarietyChardonnay
- DesignationEstate
- CountryNew Zealand
- RegionNorth Island
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