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AU $252.00
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Esk Valley, Reserve Chardonnay, 2005 (6 bottles @ $42.00 per bottle)
This is an elegant and restrained style of chardonnay. The nose has a citrus and mineral component with hints of meal, biscuit and toast from barrel fermentation and ageing. The wine is full bodied with stonefruit and citrus nuances and an elegance which would suggest excellent ageing potential. The wine is complex and long on the palate.
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Both the Kumeu River Estate and Mates Chardonnays make Wine Spectator U.S.A. Top 100 Wines of the Year and have done for many years which shows the class and consistency of one of N.Z. best chardonnays. Hand harvested, whole bunch pressed, indigenous yeast fermentation, 100% malo-lactic fermentation. 2006 was a spectacular vintage and our Chardonnays across the board are ripe floral and delicious. Mate's Vineyard is always set apart from our other Kumeu River Chardonnays with its lifted sweet fruit aroma that is akin to pears. On the palate we see the extra concentration, and length of flavour but the wine still seems more refined and taut than the Kumeu River Estate Chardonnay. Certainly a wine that will benefit from bottle age of 4-6 years." M.Brajkovich.
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AU $345.00
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5 stars.”Fromm’s premier Chardonnay, grown on the southern flanks of the Wairau Valley, was previously labelled La Strada Reserve, but since the 2001 vintage has been called Clayvin Vineyard (the clay soils, says winemaker Hätsch Kalberer, give ‚a less fruity, more minerally and tighter character’). Tasted in 2005, the 1996 vintage revealed exceptional weight, power and longevity. The pale lemon/green 2003 vintage (4 ½ Starts) is steely and intense. Fermented with indigenous yeast and matured for 16 months in French oak Barrique (none new), it is very youthful and fresh, with citrus, slightly biscuity, almost floral aromas. The palate is crisp and bone-dry, with racy acidity and deep grapefruit and slightly toasty flavours, minerally and flinty. A strong candidate for cellaring. Drink 2007-2012. Michael Coopers Buyer's guide to New Zealand.
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AU $387.00
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