2014 Hunting Hill Chardonnay
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The 2014 Hunting Hill Chardonnay has not yet crested the hill of middle age. Amazingly, the wine shows real energy and chutzpah on the mid-palate, bounding and leaping across the tongue in a variety of directions. This is busy, racy and full of intense fruit flavor. I'd still suggest it has a ways to go yet with regard to stilling. On the flip side, it offers a brilliant two-sided coin of drinking experience: one of bottle-age complexity, the other of youthful rambunctiousness.
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Lisa Perrotti-Brown MW, Wine Advocate
Jancis Robinson MW
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Round and quite complex on the nose. Lots of spine and tension still. Very burgundian. Really complete. Still drinking beautifully. Very persistent. Everything is in perfect alignment. (JR)
The 2014 Chardonnay Hunting Hill retains a bright lemon hue that would leave you astonished if you had this blind and found out it was already ten years old. It's a little muted on the nose with a hint of dustiness. The Hunting Hill comes from relatively young vines at this stage (13 years), but there's no doubting its concentration and the linear power that runs through its fleshy, ripe core. This wine extends into a lengthy, sinewy finish, with apricot fruit meeting its kernel.
Magnum. Still very much alive though, tasting it blind, I thought it was from the Mâconnais, it was so relatively fat. Very unlike the tension to be found in many Kumeu River Chardonnays. But I see when I tasted it in 2018 I noted its breadth. (JR)