Wine Composition
100% Grenache
Winemakers Comments
Strawberries, plums and sweet spice aromas. Elegant, pure and finely balanced palate with an integrated and layered tannin texture. This wine will gracefully age for many years to come.
Awards
Tim Atkin | 90 points
Wine spectator | 90 points
Technical Analysis
Alcohol Percentage
13%
RS
1.5 g/l
Vinyard
75% Bushvine Grenache from Paardeberg in decomposed granite and sand. 25% Grenache from Bot River grown in Bokkeveld shale and clay.
Cellar
Gentle winemaking with a ‘hands-off’ approach to show the delicate and more elegant side of this grape. After handpicking in the early morning, bunches were destemmed into 2 ton fermenting tanks with 30% whole clusters. 4 days of cold soaking was allowed for colour and flavour to develop before a natural fermentation started. Punch downs were done by hand, twice a day, resulting in gentle extraction, preserving the “grape's" personality and natural character. After a slow and steady fermentation that reached around 28 degrees celsius, an additional post-fermentation maceration of 10 days was done to extract the finer, softer tannins. After a total of 5 weeks on the skins, grapes were gently pressed with a basket press into older 225 litre French oak barrels for malolactic fermentation and maturation.
Winemaker
Name - Marelise Nieman
Winery
Momento wines was born in 2011 from inspired travels of the great world of wine and its vineyard sited, especially the ancient vineyards of the Old World. Based in the beautifully authentic and diverse Bot River region of South Africa, which winemaker and proprietor Marelise Niemann has called home since 2007. Niemanns goal in winemaking is to reflect every single element involved – both human and natural – from the people, personalities, ideas and experiences; to the sun, soil, water and earth.
What started out as a curious Grenache bottling has grown into a wonderfully exciting venture of exploration and discovery—vinifying unique and honest wines. With a winemaking approach that is gentle and ‘hands-off’, Niemann respects the grape and its place, and allows the wine to express its own character and origin. At Momento, Niemann is privileged to work with vines from all corners of the Cape, where she searches for unique parcels that truly express the region and soil where it is grown; mostly from older and sometimes dryland bush vines.
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