Kumeu River, Rays Road Chardonnay Vintage:2018 fig and hints of furniture

fig and hints of furniture polish emerging from the glass

Masses of bold

sub-regional introduction to the range is consistently and strikingly savoury

showing bright and juicy cherry fruit

Young at heart still

Kumeu River, Rays Road Chardonnay Vintage:2018 fig and hints of furnitureQuite a 'stony' nose and already lots of fun. Seems more than a year more evolved than the 2019. At a very nice stage now. Fresh and minerally and super crisp but quite satisfying and not meagre at all. Super clean. Just right for current drinking. If only all white burgundy offered this accessibility (I'm talking both price and taste). Really quite long. A neat, complete wine. At the moment I prefer this to the more intense but unformed Rays Road