New World 6-Pack: Provenance Pinot Noir | Kumeu Village Chardonnay
Regular price $167.00Mixed 6, including three of each:
2023 Provenance Golden Plains Pinot Noir
"A blend of the best regions from South-West Victoria: Ballarat, Drumborg, Barrabool, Moorabool Valley and Bellarine. Polished and intensely aromatic red cherries, raspberries, cranberries, rhubarb and red plums. The tannins are sandy, leaving delicate traces like steps in the sand. An incredibly aromatic grip coupled with balanced acidity and persistent length makes this multi-regional blend a piece of mastery, combining the best of a part of Victoria often overlooked in favour of the usual reigning wine regions."
95 Points - Lisa Cardelli, Wine Pilot
2025 Kumeu Village Chardonnay
*Could be the best value chardonnay in the world!*
“The 2025 Vintage gave us outstanding quality, both in Kumeu and Hawkes Bay, with beautiful fruit aroma, flavour and concentration." Michael Brajkovich, Winemaker
For this '25 vintage the important Rays Road vineyard in Hawkes Bay made up 32% of the final blend, which gives the wine a distinctive limestone kind of mineral edginess. The wine is ripe in flavour and weight, but sits at 13.5 giving vibrancy and freshness, not as tight and lean as a Chablis, but certainly nowhere the fat and glycerol laden end of the spectrum. The citrus elements of Chardonnay shine through with a refreshingly crisp acid finish. $26 is a ridiculous price for a wine like this.
Cheers, Randall.