Kumeu River Wines - Mate's Vineyard Chardonnay - 2024

The 2024 Maté's Vineyard Chardonnay is mouthfilling and full, easily the biggest and most powerful of the single-vineyard Chardonnays in this 2024 release. In terms of quality, 2024 is up there with the best of them: 2022, 2020, 2014... This feels perhaps as statuesque and thrilling as the best of the Maté's so far, with intensity that explodes in every direction on the palate—length and width—with spicy top notes and a thunderous base of yellow fruit. The acidity, as usual, coils and weaves its way across the palate, lacing together the fruit and phenolics with seamless intensity. This is very good. 95-97 Points Erin Larkin, The Wine Advocate