Kumeu River Estate Chardonnay, Kumeu, New Zealand 2023 Country_Argentina As a Cava producer

As a Cava producer

using an old local tool known as a crible (famously employed by Pierre Overnoy in Pupillin): a wooden plank with grape-sized holes over which the harvested bunches are rolled back and forth until the fruit falls through

The wine is both lively and mineral

This is a rare 4th generation Cru estate in Juliénas and Julie

bright red berries

Kumeu River Estate Chardonnay, Kumeu, New Zealand 2023 Country_Argentina As a Cava producer100% Chardonnay Practicing Organic View winemaker fact sheet From their trailblazing days around Kumeu to earning James Suckling's 2021 Wine of the Year award for their 2020 Mat's Vineyard Chardonnay, Kumeu River have established an international reputation that is well justified. The wines are absolutely excellent, and for the Burgundy lover looking to explore elsewhere, we will point you directly here. Barrel fermented (20% new oak) with 100%