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Description
Maté’s Vineyard is the crown jewel at Kumeu River. Planted in 1990 by Maté Brajkovich on the very same block where his family first put vines in the ground back in 1944, it’s a site that’s earned a reputation for going toe-to-toe with Burgundy’s best and often coming out on top.
The Mendoza clone vines here naturally give tiny, hen-and-chicken berries - all intensity and flavour. In 2024, it was the last vineyard picked, under perfect late-season skies, the fruit pristine and low-yielding. As always, the team kept it simple: hand-pick, whole-bunch press, wild ferment in French oak, full malo, then 11 months resting in barrel.
Right now it’s taut and composed showing lemon zest, white flowers, a touch of stone with the signature depth and drive that has made this wine so revered. You can drink it now for the sheer precision, but the magic really happens after a decade in the cellar, when all that power finally unfurls.
95-97 points
"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."
- Erin Larkin (The Wine Advocate)
| Price Bracket | $101 and Above |
| Type | White |
| Body | Full Bodied |
| Variety | Chardonnay |
| Country | New Zealand |
| Region | Kumeu |
| Feature |
High Score |
| Reviewed By |
The Wine Advocate |
| Critic Score |
97 |
| Alcohol | 12.5% |
| Size | 750ml |
| Vintage | 2024 |
| Closure | Screw Cap |
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