2024 Kumeu River Village Chardonnay

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Score 92/100 · Jasper Morris MW, Inside Burgundy, Aug 2025

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92/100

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92
92/100

Jasper Morris MW, Inside Burgundy

92
92/100

Erin Larkin, Wine Advocate

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92 points
Erin Larkin, Wine Advocate
Score 92/100 · Drink 2025-2034, Erin Larkin, Wine Advocate, Jun 2025

The 2024 Village Chardonnay had just been freshly bottled when I tasted it at the estate in Kumeu in March 2025. The other 2024 Chardonnays were tasted as tank samples prior to filtration and bottling soon. The wine leads with yellow citrus and crushed shells. It is texturally fine, sleek and tightly coiled around a core of salty acidity. It is complex but composed and very good. "2024 was a fantastic year, just very small," says Paul Brajkovich. "Weather during flowering wasn't good in spring in 2023," says Michael Brajkovich. "Ripening in 2024 was excellent, so we have a 40% down in yield but very high quality. The Village wine is a blend of Kumeu and Hawke's Bay [and is] a mixture of barrel and tank fermentation."

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Kumeu River
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Chardonnay

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White

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