| Region | |
|---|---|
| Subregion | New Zealand > Auckland |
| Colour | White |
| Type | Still |
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The 2014 Mate's Vineyard Chardonnay delivers wonderful intensity with fragrant lemon, orange blossom and grapefruit aromas plus crushed stones, flint, toast and yeast extract hints. Medium-bodied, the palate is filled with vibrant citrus flavours and great acidity, finishing with excellent. Drink 2016-2026.
Complex both nose and palate has the richness of ripe fruit yet the underlying freshness of lime and flint. Ripe peach some fleshy melon gives mid richness but towards the back the fresh fruit the citrus and the mineral take over lighten and streamline the finish. 2018-28
An intriguingly dusty, chalky, mineral nose with white peach stone fruits, greengage plum, soft lemon citrus and crystalline yellow apples. Plenty of dusty minerality, crush gravel and linearity with the finish quite saline again, tart and fleshy, full yet nervy. A wine all about contradictions. Very impressive and certainly one for the cellar if you can find any stock.
Savour on the nose and extremely burgundian. So composed. Such balance. Everything in its place. Almost the weight of a burgundy grand cru. Smashing! Great crystalline structure with massive fruit in the middle. Still some chew on the end.
Drink 2018-2035
This top bottling from the oldest vines is a powerful wine wound into a complex yet contained mode. It has plenty of savory hazelnut and biscuit aromas that combine with orange hints and flinty moments in the glass. The palate's fuller than the others, really fleshy and packed with peach flavors. A wine that demonstrates a sense of weight as it heads to the convincing finish. Drink now.
Quite toasty nose with some hazelnuts and earthy funk, this is a powerful and impressively structured chardonnay that's anything but charming. Bold mineral finish. Drink or hold. Screw cap.
