Kumeu River Village Chardonnay
- White
- New Zealand
- Kumeu
- Chardonnay
This record is a provisional match and may describe a different bottling.
- Tracked vintages
- 8
- Community notes
- 209
- Merchant offers
- 28
What we know about this wine
- Critics
- 92/ 1002024 · nearest vintage with a critic score
- Real drinkers
- 77/ 100209 notes, every vintage
- Market price
- £10per 75 cl2024 · nearest vintage with a price · 6-bottle in-bond trade, October 2025
- Drinking window
- UnknownNot recorded on any vintage we track
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 94 community ratings, read 2026-08-12. Style: New Zealand Chardonnay.
- Body3.4 / 5
- LightFull
- Acidity3.6 / 5
- SoftCrisp
- Sweetness1.4 / 5
- DrySweet
- Tree fruit · apple, peach, green apple, pear, melon
- Citrus · citrus, lemon, lime, grapefruit, lemon zest
- Oak · oak, butter, vanilla, cedar, baking spice
- Earth · minerals, stone, honey, flint, smoke
- Yeast and lees · cream, yeast, cheese, oil, banana
- Vegetal · chard, straw, grass, gooseberry, hay
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.
2021One 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.
- 2025unit not stated
- 202492critic£10 / 75cl6-bottle in-bond trade, October 2025
- 202392criticunit not stated
- 2022£8 / 75cl12-bottle in-bond trade, September 2023
- 202189critic£9 / 75cl12-bottle in-bond trade, January 2023
- 202087criticunit not stated
- 201670drinkers
- Window not recordedthe vintage carries no window, so the meter shows its score alone
- Best scored
- 2024
- 92 / 100 from a critic
- Lowest price
- 2022
- £8 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
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Where to go next
LWIN 1214387