Kumeu River Chardonnay Rays Road 2022
White
Kumeu, New Zealand
7.4
WineSaint
The texture builds through the mid-palate where malolactic adds weight, but this remains lean and focused. Older French oak provides subtle framework without masking the vineyard's inherent tension. Give it time.
crushed stonewhite flowerscitrus pithsubtle oak
Label
Kumeu River
→Kumeu River is New Zealand's benchmark Chardonnay house, farming multiple named single-vineyard sites in the Auckland-adjacent Kumeu region and making wines that regularly draw comparison with good Burgundy.