Kumeu River, Hunting Hill Chardonnay, 2022
Kumeu River, Hunting Hill Chardonnay, 2022
- White Still
- Chardonnay
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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

What the critics say:
"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."
"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."


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