Bob McDonald

9.5

The pale lemon colour belies the luscious, opulent stone fruit nature on the medium to full bodied palate. Of all of the Kumeu River Cuvées, Coddington is regarded as the most opulent I believe. This is a real crowd pleaser - so easy to like. — 18 days ago

Bob McDonald

9.3

This is the 2019 Hunting Hill, same vintage as the recently tasted Kumeu River Coddington. The Coddington remains the more opulent of the Kumeu cuvées. A mouth watering salinity. In this one. As Bob Campbell MW said, this is a Burgundian style (lacking the stone fruit of the Coddington). Although several previous vintages of Mates Vineyard have proved, at least to my palate, that it is the premium Cuvée. — 3 months ago

Peter van den Besselaar

9.3

Vintage 2022 | true to type chard, very vibrant, with clear acidity and finesse and refinement. Very quaffable to, difficult to spit this out. — a year ago

Devin Brown

9.0

The description: The 2022 Pinque has classic strawberries and cream characters along with watermelon and a touch of Szechuan pepper. The 2022 vintage was warm and dry and correspondingly this wine is relatively low in acid making for a very smashable wine, although like all our wines there is plenty of subtle complexity to delight the taster. Enjoy! The opinion: in total agreement.

— 3 years ago

Jake Hajer

9.1

Has a couple years age which has done it well. Granite, black pepper, sour cherry, charred grapefruit, blackberry, game. Medium minus body. Mouthwatering. Enjoyed!! — 6 years ago

Keith Crump

9.0

Very expensive and balanced — 7 years ago

Peter van den Besselaar

9.0

vintage 2024 | True to type — 6 days ago

Peter van den Besselaar

9.1

vintage 2023 | chardonnay typicality with waves of vanilla | obviously very young | paired with a fish pizza — 2 months ago

Jason Sliwa

9.3

I liked this more than I can remember liking a syrah. Restrained, well balanced, delicious. — 5 months ago

Doug Powers

9.3

Nicely fruity New Zealand Syrah, in addition to blackberry and smoky aromas and flavors, also shows some bacon fat notes and some solid structure, rich and complex, long, lingering finish, very fine!! — 2 years ago

with Jim

Nick Damiano

9.3

Picked this up walking around Waiheke a few years ago. Super nice, dry, peppery, blackberry, good tannins — 5 years ago

Mako Sawaguchi

9.0

It’s reminiscent of great times with people you trust. We were disappointed when the last drop disappeared. — 6 years ago

with Gordon

Hajime Kawasaki

9.0

美味しい。
デサートワインと銘打っているが、甘さはそれほどでも無い。爽やかな飲口。
フルーティだが複雑。 — 6 years ago

Paul J

9.4

Very nice. Tough to follow the Leflaive. More metallic and mineral elements with an attractive crispness. — a month ago

with Brooke

Peter van den Besselaar

9.1

Vintage 2022 | Expressive minerality, strict, a bit one dimensional but great effort as this is the basic wine of Kumeu — 4 months ago

Jenn Blachford

9.0

Absolutely delicious. Deep cherry — 6 months ago

with Matt

Steven Lee

9.3

Opened at a restaurant where we surprised was given a private room. Breathed with decanter but was not the best when opened up. after about an hour of breathing it is more pleasant with some blue fruit and mineral and overall still abit bitter. not bad for new zealand — 2 years ago

Morgan Diamant

9.3

Dark fruit (purple and black), chocolate and refined tannins lead to a delicious, complex, and long finish on this red blend. I’d guess a blend of Syrah, Merlot, Malbec? — 6 years ago

Cameron Epperson

9.5

Fresh, acidic and fruity taste. Green apple notes at first, then peach and lime. Really good! — 6 years ago

LS MacNamara

9.5

Not a great photo but love this wine from Waiheke island — 6 years ago