2013 Mate's Vineyard Chardonnay
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The 2013 Maté's Vineyard Chardonnay shows us all the power and density that the vineyard is famous for. The wine has hints of buttered popcorn alongside salted yellow peach, green apple acidity and preserved lemon rind lacing the edges. The wine is not yet unbound by time, and while it shows some development of the fruit through the finish, it promises a long future in front of it, one that will undoubtedly morph and grow with more years in the bottle. This is super.
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Jancis Robinson MW
Jancis Robinson MW
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Broad and brawny with good acidity and a sort of burnished breastplate of a wine. Stephen Browett says this is the wine to put up blind against a Montrachet. Something almost burnt about this. (JR)
The 2013 Chardonnay Maté's Vineyard is a powerful, ripe, rich style full of substance, sinew and richness. That Mendoza clone really zings through with its sweet, ripe yet sour and brazen, in a good way, acidity. The 2013 is satisfying and confident.
The 2013 Maté’s Vineyard Chardonnay has a well-defined, very Chassagne-like bouquet of granite-infused citrus fruit, white peach and light fumé scents. The palate is well balanced with an attractive sappiness and good depth, though without quite the same precision as the 2012 on the finish. It is capable rather than stellar Maté’s Vineyard. Tasted at the Kumeu River Chardonnay vertical in London.