Skip to product information
1 of 1

Kumeu River, Hunting Hill Chardonnay, 2022

Kumeu River, Hunting Hill Chardonnay, 2022

Kumeu River | Hawke's Bay, New Zealand | 75cl | 13.5%
  • White Still
  • Chardonnay
Regular price £54.40
Regular price Offer price £54.40
£48.96 for logged-in Cellar Plan members | Log in | Join
Delivery/Duty status
Sorry, we cannot accept orders containing a mix of items for delivery & items to be stored in-bond. Please change your duty/delivery selection or order separately.
In-bond/duty-free wine purchases are sold exclusive of duty & VAT until you are ready to receive them. If you choose our bonded storage, we do not charge landing fees.
Bottle or case?

Sorry, there is a minimum order quantity of

Spend £75.00 more to get free UK delivery when you order duty-paid

Kumeu River sits on 30 hectares of “golden vines”. Its picture-perfect terroir is tempered by a cool breeze from the Pacific Ocean with ideal clay soil overlying a sandstone base. Hunting Hill, first planted in 1982, originally played a key role in the Kumeu River Chardonnay blend, contributing ripe and rich fruit to the Estate Chardonnay. Overlooking Maté’s Vineyard, this site consistently produced exceptional grapes. Replanted in 2000, Hunting Hill has since reached new heights, offering beautifully ripe fruit with a distinctive, mealy minerality, making it better than ever.

This bright Chardonnay pairs beautifully with juicy chicken, some slow roasted tomatoes and lots of herbs.

Optimal drinking window: Now - 2036

drinking window icon

What the critics say:

96/100Rebecca Gibb, Vinous

"The 2022 Chardonnay Hunting Hill is an impressive, focused style. It has a sense of energy, being almost buoyant with the movement of a skimming stone across your palate. There's a powerful core of fruit here and it has plenty of substance within its no-more-than medium-bodied core before kerpow! It fires home with an almost spicy kick. Clever oak use, reminiscent of toasted nuts, meets restrained flavors of lemon and lime bitter and nectarine fruit. A wine that's still in its cocoon so give it time. It may even have the edge of Maté's ... Big call."

95+/100Erin Larkin, Wine Advocate

"The 2022 Hunting Hill Chardonnay is mouthfilling and obvious in its outlay of flavor in the mouth—yellow peach, apricot, Golden Delicious apple, beeswax/lanolin and ripe lime flesh. The flutter of acidity that feathers the fruit is compelling and alluring in its power and juiciness. An exciting wine. It's a wine I want to drink (I will; the perks) and a wine I am enjoying considering too. It's intellectual and sensorial/corporeal in equal measure. The Hunting Hill Vineyard was planted in 1982 and overlooks Mate's Vineyard. This is a pleasurable, exciting, fleshy, complex, salty, kaleidoscopic wine. Excellent. Recommended. 13.5% alcohol, sealed under screw cap."

View full details

OUR GROWERS

Kumeu River

  • Free Shipping

    Get free UK delivery when you spend £75 or more on duty paid wine

    Learn about delivery 
  • Speak to one of our Wine Gurus

    With years of experience, our team can help you with all your wine buying and selling needs

    Speak to a Wine Guru