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To cap off the celebrations of our 80th Anniversary here in Kumeu we hosted a retrospective Kumeu River Chardonnay tasting at the winery.  We welcomed writers, restaurateurs, and close friends from the trade in New Zealand and Australia to share some of our favourite and most celebrated vintages.The Retrospective Tasting provided an exceptional opportunity to demonstrate our wines' quality and remarkable aging potential and reinforced our pioneering decision to convert to screwcap in 2001.Throughout the tasting, we celebrated a few great vintages and milestones, including Nigel Tibbets' 50th year at Kumeu River, and to top it off, the tasting was hosted on what...

Recently whilst in London, Paul had the opportunity to share our 2023 single vineyard Chardonnays with Jancis Robinson, MW. 2023 marks Kumeu Rivers 80th Anniversary and to mark the occasions, Paul hosted a rare tasting event at Farr Vintners in London, with an opportunity to experience some of our finest vintages of Chardonnay back as far as 2002.  "This retrospective tasting of a further 30 wines demonstrated the extraordinary consistency and ageability of Kumeu River Chardonnays. What was also clear was that, a bit like that other famed Chardonnay exponent Domaine Jean-François Coche-Dury, the quality gap between their most basic wine (Kumeu River Village...

Sophie Preece interviews Michael ahed of his recognition as a 2024 New Zealand Winegrowers Fellow for services to winemaking. 

"Three stalwarts of New Zealand’s wine industry have been recognised as the 2024 New Zealand Winegrowers Fellows, in recognition of their long commitment to the industry, pouring their passion, talent, intellect and experience into the betterment of New Zealand wine. "