Kumeu River 2019 Mate's Vineyard Chardonnay

If you haven't heard already, 2019 from Kumeu River is one of the greatest vintages they have produced.

Mate's Vineyard is the top Chardonnay from Kumeu River, their oldest vines and the first single vineyard wine that they produced. Stylistically, the wine is slightly different to the other wines, perhaps the most new world-y of all their Chardonnays, for its richness and density, but that does not detract from the quality. The wine is powerful and rich, but carries the same crystalline purity of the other single vineyard wines in 2019. More than any other, this is a wine for keeping, probably peaking somewhere around 9 years old.