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Kim Crawford Te Awanga Vineyard Hawke's Bay NZ Chardonnay 2007

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85/100 45

Creamy wine with citrus/grapefruit and stone fruit flavours plus bready yeast lees, spicy oak and sizzled butter. Reasonably sleek but with enough weight and flavour to appeal to the “big and buttery” brigade.

Tasted: Mar 2010   Closure: S'cap    Average price: NZD $25 (~USD $19)

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