Kumeu River Hunting Hill Chardonnay

White
New Zealand
Kumeu
Chardonnay

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

Tracked vintages: 18
Community notes: 274
Merchant offers: 140

What we know about this wine

Critics: 95/ 1002024 · nearest vintage with a critic score
Real drinkers: 84/ 100274 notes, every vintage
Market price: £53per 75 cl2024 · nearest vintage with a price · 6-bottle shop ask, September 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 81 community ratings, read 2026-08-12. Style: New Zealand Chardonnay.

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

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

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£21–£58Shop asks£53–£53GBP per 75 cl · 14 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
Drinkinginside its stated window
Window not recordedthe vintage carries no window, so the meter shows its score alone

Best scored: 2021; 97 / 100 from a critic
Drinking now: 2007; peak, window 2019–2035
Lowest price: 2010; £21 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 tradeHatched: what a merchant is asking, which nobody has paid

Hunting Hill 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

Hunting Hill Chardonnay monthly median by vintage, per 75cl
Vintage	Price / 75cl	Critic score	In drink window	Basis
2024	£53	94.5	—	per 75cl, from a 6-bottle shop ask, September 2026
2023	£35	95.5	—	per 75cl, from a 6-bottle in-bond trade, February 2026
2022	£44	94	—	per 75cl, from a 6-bottle in-bond trade, July 2026
2021	£32	96.8	—	per 75cl, from a 6-bottle in-bond trade, June 2025
2020	£38	95	—	per 75cl, from a 6-bottle in-bond trade, August 2025
2019	£40	95.2	Yes	per 75cl, from a 6-bottle in-bond trade, July 2025
2017	£30	95.3	—	per 75cl, from a 3-1500 ml in-bond trade, April 2019
2016	£38	92.5	Yes	per 75cl, from a 12-bottle in-bond trade, November 2024
2015	£50	94	Yes	per 75cl, from a 12-bottle in-bond trade, January 2024
2014	£52	94.5	Yes	per 75cl, from a 12-bottle in-bond trade, April 2022
2013	£58	94.5	Yes	per 75cl, from a 12-bottle in-bond trade, April 2022
2012	£22	93.5	Yes	per 75cl, from a single-bottle in-bond trade, August 2015
2010	£21	93.5	Yes	per 75cl, from a single-bottle in-bond trade, June 2017
2007	£35	96.5	Yes	per 75cl, from a 12-bottle in-bond trade, February 2024

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