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Momento Mori Staring at the Sun 2022

Momento Mori

Momento Mori Staring at the Sun 2022

Regular price $82.00
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Pickup available at Bukit Timah

Gippsland / Victoria // Australia

The cult classic.

Staring at the Sun is what you might call the flagship wine (for want of a better term), it was the first wine released (2015) under Momento Mori Wines and has gained somewhat of a cult following in Australia and abroad.

The blend is relatively the same each year and includes Fiano, Vermentino, and Moscato Giallo, although amounts are adjusted to suit the vintage. The 2022 is comprised of 45% Vermentino, 45% Fiano and 10% Moscato Giallo All are fermented separately in stainless for varying time on skins. Each variety is then pressed back to stainless and left to rest on solid lees over the winter (also in stainless) before gravity racking, assembling the final blend and then bottling in early summer.

It is pure, clean and has great tension and energy without lacking any of its usual character or charm. 
About the Producer

When it comes to cult winemakers there are only a few in Australia that have the same following as Momento Mori. With wines that are considered just as alive as the land they farm its not hard to see why.

Dane and Hannah begun Momento Mori with the ideology of creating wines that first and foremost respect the living and are wines that they like to drink and share. They farm two sites one on the steep hills of Strezelecki Ranges in Gippsland and another beneath the Black Snake Ranges in the Tonimbuk valley.

Farmed strictly with organic principles and a appreciation of the living and dynamic environment around them. Momento Mori wines are all very small batch with no use of new oak or mechanical pumps used on the wines, no fining or filtering and no additions, including no S02 at any stage of wine making.

The wines of Momento Mori are vibrant, full of life and aromatic complexity while always exhibiting an impressive purity and precision.

Dane Johns has also started an immensely ambitious project making wine from his own vineyards under the name Nikau Farm.

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