Twin Totara is a small, family-owned label sited beside the Riverhead Forest in the Kumeu district of West Auckland, a region renowned for producing some of New Zealand's finest Chardonnays. The 2019 was estate grown in West Auckland, where a maritime climate and clay-based soils give ripe but balanced fruit. Farmed on a boutique scale, the vineyard yields the concentrated, fragrant Chardonnay behind this 'Village' bottling, which reviewers described as fragrant, refined and mouthfilling with good depth and cellaring potential.

The Chardonnay was fermented and matured with barrel work that lends finely integrated, biscuity oak, retaining vibrant grapefruit and peach fruit with balanced acidity, in the classic Kumeu style. Some lees influence adds the lemon-butter texture noted on the finish. The wines are made off-site by the experienced team at the nearby West Brook Winery in Kumeu; precise fermentation vessel, oak proportion and lees-ageing detail for this bottling are not publicly documented.