Kumeu River Mate's Vineyard Chardonnay 2017 - Bt | RP97

HK$550.00

Bt (750ml)

Stock Location: HK

Tasting note

The 2017 Mate's Vineyard Chardonnay shows that this wine needs time to come into its own. All the rambunctious energy and barely bridled power of the wine on release and close to it is harnessed by time. It shows a previously bucking brumby to be a purebred stallion, one made for speed and endurance. Excellent. It remains savory, the depth of complexity only deepening with time. I love this as much as I love the Hunting Hill—that wine being restrained and composed, this being a fete of power and concentration.

Score: 97

Erin Larkin, The Wine Advocate, June 2025

Bt (750ml)

Stock Location: HK

Tasting note

The 2017 Mate's Vineyard Chardonnay shows that this wine needs time to come into its own. All the rambunctious energy and barely bridled power of the wine on release and close to it is harnessed by time. It shows a previously bucking brumby to be a purebred stallion, one made for speed and endurance. Excellent. It remains savory, the depth of complexity only deepening with time. I love this as much as I love the Hunting Hill—that wine being restrained and composed, this being a fete of power and concentration.

Score: 97

Erin Larkin, The Wine Advocate, June 2025