{"id":5698,"date":"2009-12-16T13:49:43","date_gmt":"2009-12-16T11:49:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.whalecottage.com\/blog\/?p=5698"},"modified":"2009-12-18T15:16:18","modified_gmt":"2009-12-18T13:16:18","slug":"genevieve-mcc-a-bubbly-high-flyer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chrisvonulmenstein.com\/blog\/wine-news\/genevieve-mcc-a-bubbly-high-flyer\/","title":{"rendered":"Genevieve MCC a bubbly high-flyer!"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>One of the fringe benefits of writing is that one meets some very special persons.\u00a0 One such lady is Melissa Genevieve Nelsen, who has just launched the first vintage of her new Genevieve Methode Cap Classique.<\/p>\n

Melissa grew up in the lovely fruit-farming valley of Elgin, dreaming of becoming an air hostess.\u00a0 Her late mother challenged her to think big, and to become a pilot rather than a hostess.\u00a0 Despite the financial challenge of paying for the flying lessons, paid for by waitressing, Melissa persevered, and qualified with a commercial pilot’s licence, flying for a small charter company in Johannesburg.<\/p>\n

When her mom became ill, Genevieve came back to the Cape to nurse her, and started doing beading.\u00a0 She also planted buchu on her stepdad’s smallholding, the buchu oil forming the organic foundation of artificial flavouring.\u00a0 This was followed by a stint at Wildekrans, where she ran the tasting room, and took over the marketing for the wine estate when the Marketing Manager moved to Plettenberg Bay.<\/p>\n

Her boyfriend from school, Leon Engelke,\u00a0a viticulturist at Beaumont\u00a0in Bot River, entered a Garagiste Cabernet Unfiltered wine he had made at the Michelangelo wine awards, and to his surprise, won Double Gold for it.\u00a0\u00a0 This inspired Melissa to make her own wine too, and she decided that it should be a sparkling wine.\u00a0\u00a0 Using chardonnay grapes from a smallholding in Bot River, Melissa made her first Genevieve (her second name) Methode Cap Classique,\u00a0receiving advice and support from Colmant, High Constantia and Ross Gower Wines.<\/p>\n

The Genevieve 2008 MCC was launched at the Cape Royale Luxury Hotel\u00a03 weeks ago.\u00a0 It is made of 100% chardonnay,\u00a0utilising “whole bunch pressing ensuring quality juice”.\u00a0 A minimum of 18 months yeast contact time was allowed “before disgorgement”.\u00a0\u00a0 The sparkling wine was made at Ross Gower cellars in Elgin, it was riddled at Avondale, and is stored at Luddite.<\/p>\n

Her tasting note says:”Delicately elegant, with fresh and subtle aromas of white fruits.\u00a0\u00a0 This 100% Chardonnay combines the characteristics of the grapes along with extensive time on the lees to bring depth and flavour to the wine.”\u00a0\u00a0 Her first vintage has a production of 5 500 bottles.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

Genevieve MCC: www.genevievemcc.co.za<\/a> , cell 083 302 6562<\/p>\n

Chris von Ulmenstein, Whale Cottage Portfolio: <\/strong>www.whalecottage.com<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

One of the fringe benefits of writing is that one meets some very special persons.\u00a0 One such lady is Melissa Genevieve Nelsen, who has just launched the first vintage of her new Genevieve Methode Cap Classique. Melissa grew up in the lovely fruit-farming valley of Elgin, dreaming of becoming an air hostess.\u00a0 Her late mother […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false},"categories":[124,21,19],"tags":[2822,3009,1903,421,32378,224,32379,3008,3012,3013,3010,3007,3014,3011,1062,32373,2671],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t