Kumeu River Chardonnay Kumeu Village New Zealand 2025 750ml

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Kumeu River Chardonnay Kumeu Village New Zealand 2025 750ml

SKU: N2149939 ISBN: 720815851436

🇳🇿 Lively lime and lemon aromas, flinty minerality, hints of fig and white peach.
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Kumeu River Village Chardonnay — Kumeu 2025

Kumeu River is New Zealand’s benchmark for Chardonnay — full stop. The Brajkovich family has been producing world-class wine from their 30-hectare estate in Kumeu, west of Auckland, since the pioneering days of the New Zealand wine industry, and their Chardonnays have become the globally recognised standard for non-Burgundy Chardonnay. The ...Show More >

Wine Information:

Country: New Zealand

Region: Auckland

Sub-Region:

Appellation: Kumeu River

Variety: Chardonnay

Type: Whites

Size: 750ml





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Lively lime and lemon aromas and a flinty, mineral edginess with hints of fig and white peach. The weighty mid-palate also shows peachy ripeness along with crisp acid minerality that gives the wine a refreshing cleansing quality.
This wine is delightful as an aperitif, and even better to drink with fish and shellfish.

Expert Reviews - Vintages 2024, 2023

The Wine Advocate by Erin Brooks 92 Points | The 2024 Village Chardonnay had just been freshly bottled when I tasted it at the estate in Kumeu in March 2025. The other 2024 Chardonnays were tasted as tank samples prior to filtration and bottling soon. The wine leads with yellow citrus and crushed shells. It is texturally fine, sleek and tightly coiled around a core of salty acidity. It is complex but composed and very good. (Vintage 2024).

James Suckling writes: A delicious chardonnay with a sour lemon, cooked apple and grapefruit undertone. Medium body. Tangy and fruity. Drink now. Screw cap. - James Suckling 92. (Vintage 2023).

Erin Larkin writes: The 2023 Village Chardonnay is silky and sleek in the mouth, with lemon flesh, curd, almond meal and brine. The wine has loads of flavor but is restrained and composed; it's a really great entrée to the world of Kumeu River. Eighty percent of the fruit is from the Hawke's Bay vineyard. 12.5% alcohol, sealed under screw cap. Drinking 2023 to 2029. - Robert Parker Wine Advocate 90. (Vintage 2023).

Rebecca Gibb MW writes: This is a subtle, well-put-together 2023 Chardonnay Village with a flush of bright, mouthwatering acidity that holds the wine together as if a zipper. Restrained fruit meets gentle leesy characters, lending a savory element to the style. It's not a long wine but is done in a zesty aperitif style Chardonnay for drinking in youth on a summer's day. Drinking 2024 to 2028. - Vinous. (Vintage 2023).