Kumeu River - Chardonnay Hunting Hill 2022 (750ml)
Price: $67.00
| Producer | Kumeu River |
| Country | New Zealand |
| Region | Auckland |
| Varietal | Chardonnay |
| Vintage | 2022 |
| Sku | 1641685 |
| Size | 750ml |
Vinous: 96 Points
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. (Drink between 2024-2035)
vWine Advocate: 95+ Points
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. Published: Sep 21 2023
