Kumeu River Coddington Chardonnay

White
New Zealand
Kumeu
Chardonnay

This record is a provisional match and may describe a different bottling.

Tracked vintages: 17
Community notes: 211
Merchant offers: 88

What we know about this wine

Critics: 95/ 1002024 · nearest vintage with a critic score
Real drinkers: 85/ 100211 notes, every vintage
Market price: £31per 75 cl2024 · nearest vintage with a price · 6-bottle in-bond trade, March 2026
Drinking window: 2020–2039peak2019 · nearest vintage with a window

Flavour and structure

What drinkers taste in this wine across its vintages, and how it is built: body, acidity, tannin and sweetness on a five-point scale, with the number of ratings behind them.

Structure from 64 community ratings, read 2026-08-12. Style: New Zealand Chardonnay.

Body3.4 / 5: LightFull
Acidity3.5 / 5: SoftCrisp
Sweetness1.7 / 5: DrySweet

Oak · oak, butter, vanilla, butterscotch, pastry
Tree fruit · peach, apple, pear, apricot, green apple
Citrus · citrus, lemon, grapefruit, lime, orange
Earth · minerals, stone, honey, flint, smoke
Yeast and lees · cream, cheese, lemon curd, yeast, oil
Tropical fruit · pineapple, tropical, kiwi, guava, lychee

Grapes: Chardonnay. Proportions are not recorded.

Descriptors are the words drinkers used most, grouped; counts are mentions. Tannin is shown only where it was measured.

Realised in-bond trades£20–£73GBP per 75 cl · 13 priced vintages

2007One point per priced vintage. Years with no price we can stand behind are not drawn.2024

Vintages

Each vintage has its own page with both scores, the drinking window and the merchant price range. The meter is the score on a 60-100 scale and its colour is where that vintage stands against its own drinking window. Prices are per 75cl, with the case size and month they were taken from.

Peakinside the middle half of its stated window
Past its windowits window has closed
Window not recordedthe vintage carries no window, so the meter shows its score alone

Best scored: 2024; 95 / 100 from a critic
Drinking now: 2013; peak, window 2017–2038
Lowest price: 2018; £20 per 75 cl

Price by vintage

One monthly median per vintage, divided by the case size it was quoted in, so the bars are the same unit. These are our own aggregates, not offers: nobody will sell you a median.

Solid: a realised in-bond trade

Coddington Chardonnay monthly median by vintage, per 75cl · Each bar is one month of one SKU; the table below names the case size, the tape and the month behind every figure. 1 vintage is priced in a case size the merchant did not state, so no per-bottle figure is drawn for it

View as a table

Coddington Chardonnay monthly median by vintage, per 75cl
Vintage	Price / 75cl	Critic score	In drink window	Basis
2024	£31	95	—	per 75cl, from a 6-bottle in-bond trade, March 2026
2023	£28	94	—	per 75cl, from a 6-bottle in-bond trade, September 2025
2022	£25	93	—	per 75cl, from a 6-bottle in-bond trade, September 2023
2021	£29	94.5	—	per 75cl, from a 6-bottle in-bond trade, October 2024
2020	£32	93	—	per 75cl, from a 6-bottle in-bond trade, March 2026
2019	£34	94	Yes	per 75cl, from a 6-bottle in-bond trade, May 2026
2018	£20	93.7	—	per 75cl, from a 6-bottle in-bond trade, April 2024
2017	£23	93.7	Yes	per 75cl, from a 6-bottle in-bond trade, November 2021
2016	£22	92.5	Yes	per 75cl, from a 12-bottle in-bond trade, May 2018
2015	£26	90.5	—	per 75cl, from a 12-bottle in-bond trade, February 2025
2014	£33	94.5	—	per 75cl, from a 12-bottle in-bond trade, May 2023
2011	£22	90	No	per 75cl, from a single-bottle in-bond trade, August 2015
2007	£73	94	Yes	per 75cl, from a 6-1500 ml in-bond trade, October 2022

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