Kumeu River, Rays Road Chardonnay Size:12x750ml A brooding and much less

A brooding and much less expressive nose grudgingly reveals notes of both red and dark berries

very edgy and sharp

spices and black cherries wrap around the brooding

Enters sweet

The 2001 Barolo Pajana offers up freshly cut flowers

Kumeu River, Rays Road Chardonnay Size:12x750ml A brooding and much lessQuite a 'stony' nose and already lots of fun. Seems more than a year more evolved than the 2019. At a very nice stage now. Fresh and minerally and super crisp but quite satisfying and not meagre at all. Super clean. Just right for current drinking. If only all white burgundy offered this accessibility (I'm talking both price and taste). Really quite long. A neat, complete wine. At the moment I prefer this to the more intense but unformed Rays Road