Hugo Mendes, Pitau Branco, 2024 CALIFORNIA COUNT with layers of honeycomb

with layers of honeycomb

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Marelise Niemann launched Momento in 2013 while still making wine at Beaumont

Hugo Mendes, Pitau Branco, 2024 CALIFORNIA COUNT with layers of honeycombHugo Mendes trained as a biotech engineer before the wine bug bit, working his way up to head winemaker in Bucelas before going solo with his own label outside Lisbon. His Pitau range was created with a purpose beyond the glass, to fund social work in the area near where he and his wife grew up. The Branco is built from traditional Lisboa white grapes like Fernao Pires, Vital and Arinto, the kind of nearly forgotten varieties Mendes loves to champion.