2014 Mate's Vineyard Chardonnay
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The 2014 Maté's Vineyard Chardonnay performs just as you'd expect, showing the intersection of a ripe vintage through the lens of this powerful vineyard planted to the Mendoza clone. Unlike the youthful rambunctiousness of the 2014 Hunting Hill, this is complete. It has found stillness and calm in the 11 years from harvest, and the wine feels merely as if it is settling into its long future. Like sitting in a comfortable chair, there's no saying when you might get up. This has that same patient air about it.
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Lisa Perrotti-Brown MW, Wine Advocate
James Suckling
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Neat and actually less flamboyant than the Hunting Hill. Lime-syrup flavours and just a little less focus than the Hunting Hill. A very fine drink but it suffers from being served just after the 2014 Hunting Hill. (JR)
The 2014 Chardonnay Maté's Vineyard offers lemon sorbet and ice cream cornet. It's still toasty and smoky, with cloves, nectarine, and flint, and it's oh-so young. It's a meal in itself, with its almost chewy nature. Incredibly, this is ten years old. There is still plenty of substance, and I'd suggest you don't want to drink this yet. It's long and flavorsome.
The 2014 Maté’s Vineyard Chardonnay has a riveting, brilliantly defined bouquet of oyster shell, citrus peel and apple blossom, all very penetrating and focused. The palate is well balanced with superbly pitched acidity and well-integrated oak. There is real depth and persistence to this Chardonnay, yet there is also an effortless feel, as if it knows how good it is. World-class stuff. Tasted at the Kumeu River Chardonnay vertical in London.