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Kumeu River Wines Single Vineyard Selection Mate's Vineyard Chardonnay 2008
Kumeu River Wines Single Vineyard Selection Mate's Vineyard Chardonnay 2008


 
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Bottle-size : 75cl

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Mate’s Vineyard was so named after the estate’s founder, Mate (pronounced Matty) Brajkovich, passed away in 1992. It is an original block near the winery, which was replanted to Mendoza Clone Chardonnay in 1990. This wine is made similarly to the other two single vineyard wines except that it gets a bit more new oak, around 30-33%. The 2008 Mate’s Vineyard Chardonnay begins with butterscotch, toast and apricot kernel notes, leading to fragrant aromas of orange blossom, honeysuckle, coriander seed and warm Golden Delicious apple slices. The palate is very tight-knit with great tension, wonderfully crisp and pure acid, and a creamy richness that lingers on and on in the mouth. It needs time to really shine -- consider drinking it from 2014 to 2019+. Wine Advocate 94+

At Kumeu River Wines our winemaking philosophy is simple. We endeavour to grow grapes of the highest standard and then treat them with respect when we turn them into wine. In this way the potential quality is maximised, and we are able to produce wines that are truly representative of our land. To this end our vineyards are trained on the “Lyre” trellis to optimise their exposure to light and therefore the ripeness of the grapes. Yields are kept low to improve the concentration of aromas and flavours in the grapes, and we harvest all of our grapes by hand. This allows us to remove faulty berries in the field so that our quality grapes may arrive at the winery in pristine condition. The white grapes are all whole-bunch pressed, which is time-consuming but gives us the best quality results. The reds are destemmed and crushed gently before being transferred to fermentation tanks. No yeasts are added, as we rely solely on the indigenous yeasts that are present in the vineyard to conduct our fermentations.

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