Tasting Notes
The Mate's Vineyard is usually the most reserved and unyielding when young. The nose is very closed, just giving hints of the golden queen peach and mineral notes that we expect from Mate's Vineyard. On the palate however, the flavour is very concentrated and distinctly rich, while maintaining a perfect balance and freshness that sets this wine apart and makes it wonderful. This is a wine of immense concentration that will be very long lived. - Winery Note
The Brajkovich family and Kumeu River Wines is a story that parallels the New Zealand wine industry. From the pioneering days to the establishment of the New Zealand wine industry to today, the Brajkovich family have been internationally recognised as producing world class wine. The Brajkovichs are focused on and internationally recognised as producing world class Chardonnay.
Kumeu River Wines encompasses 30 hectares of vineyards, which are predominantly clay soils overlying a sandstone base. These soil types retain sufficient water at depth, even during the summer months, to ensure the deep vine roots continue to hydrate the vine without excessive vigour. Therefore, the vineyard doesn’t require irrigation, a factor that is critical to the quality of Kumeu River’s grapes.
The vineyards are trained on a ‘Lyre’ trellis to help optimise exposure to light and increase grape maturity and quality. One of the distinguishing factors of Kumeu River’s wines is all of the grapes are harvested by hand. This allows the opportunity to remove sub-standard grapes by hand; the result is a net yield of purely high-quality grapes. - Winery Note
| Product Type | Wine White Chardonnay |
| Volume | 750ml |
| Country | New Zealand |
| Region | Auckland |
| Winemaking Practices | Conventional |
| Vineyard Practices | Conventional |