2019 Kumeu River Chardonnay Hunting Hill
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The 2019 Hunting Hill Chardonnay is weighted solely on the back palate and is powerful, tightly structured and salty. This is a wine of magnitude, complexity and textural width, and it shows even more promise for the future than the Coddington, which was looking mouthwateringly full of potential. This is a ripper.
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Jancis Robinson MW
Jancis Robinson MW
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Bright pale straw colour. Refined and creamy-textured. Very lively and burgundian – because of the preponderance François Frères barrels? Good tension. (JR)
The 2019 Chardonnay Hunting Hill is a compact, sappy style that really drives home. It's a wine that knows where it's going with its lime bitters, nectarine, restraint, balance and line. A youthful wine that you could enjoy now for its drive and complexity but will benefit from further bottle age and develop slowly and gracefully over the coming decade and perhaps more.