{"product_id":"kumeu-river-mates-chardonnay-2025","title":"Kumeu River Mate's Chardonnay 2025","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: rgb(183, 6, 6);\"\u003e\u003cb\u003e97 pts Wine Advocate\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDrink Date: 2026 - 2045\u003cbr\u003eThe 2025 Maté's Vineyard Chardonnay is powerful and nutty, with ripe orchard fruit. There are also notes of white pepper, pressed linen, green apple, chamomile and salted cashews. The palate is predictably powerful and unbelievably concentrated, with depth and length that feels interminable. This is an exceptional release of Maté's, one you should make every effort to taste. These wines age so well; don't acquire them with the expectation that they must be consumed soon. They have a decades-long future ahead, if only you have the patience. 13.7% alcohol, sealed under screw cap.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cb\u003e2025 Growing Season at Kumeu\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 0.875rem;\"\u003eThe 2025 harvest season was notably dry. Harvest commenced with the early sparkling wine varieties on February 4, followed by 17 millimeters of rain one week later, shortly before the start of the table wine harvest. Conditions then remained largely dry through to the completion of the vintage on March 17. The wines were all vinified using the same method. The fruit was hand-harvested and whole-bunch pressed before undergoing fermentation with indigenous yeast. Fermentation took place entirely in French oak barrels, followed by 100% malolactic fermentation. The wines were then matured in barrel for 11 months.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Kumeu River, Auckland, NZ","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44371386204294,"sku":"TRY-WD-Kumeu-MatesChard25","price":94.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0075\/0338\/0543\/files\/mate_skumeuchardonnay.png?v=1763951716","url":"https:\/\/www.winesolutions.com\/products\/kumeu-river-mates-chardonnay-2025","provider":"Wine Solutions","version":"1.0","type":"link"}