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Address
210 EAST VERMILION STREET LAFAYETTE, LA 70501
Hours
Tues-Thurs
1pm-7pm
Friday & Saturday
1pm-8pm
Closed Sunday & Monday
21 and Over Only to Buy Wine.
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We Do Not Ship Wine or Alcohol.
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Grape varietal : Barbera, Trousseau noir, Tempranillo, Graciano, Cabernet Sauvignon.
Farming Practices : Practicing organic.
Harvest Technique : By Hand.
Fermentation : Barbera, Trousseau, and Graciano were each fermented in open top fermenters with 100% stem inclusion; Cabernet Sauvignon was destemmed and fermented in an open-top; the Tempranillo was destemmed and fermented in a closed-top tank/all lots were pressed at dryness and barreled down to neutral 227L barrique until May 2018.
Maturation : 2 years in used oak barrel.
All Forlorn Hope wines are produced from winegrapes. That's it.
They believe very strongly that site and farming produce all that they should like to find in a bottle of wine, and they don't want to confuse or muddy the story that each wine can relate by adding water or yeast or acid or enzymes that had nothing at all to do with what the vines put into each of their clusters.
Each of the Forlorn Hope wines may be put through very different fermentations en route to becoming one of their Rare Creatures -- Sèmillon is destemmed and pressed, then fermented in old and neutral barrels; Gewürztraminer is destemmed and fermented on the skins; Alvarelhão is fermented whole-cluster with no destemming or initial breaking of the fruit -- but throughout it all a common vein runs through the thought process in the cellar: listen to what the fermentation is saying as it transforms from fruit into wine. What does it want to become? In what direction does its nature want to lead it? In this manner they guide their ferments along, receiving suggestions and guidance from the wine and fermentative microbes themselves.
No new barrels are ever used in the Forlorn Hope cellar. Currently, their oldest 60 gallon vessels are from the 1997 vintage.
Most of the Forlorn Hope wines receive a modest amount of sulfur either post-fermentation or pre-bottling -- timing depending on the Rare Creature in question -- in order to ensure that they arrive in your glass in a consistently sound fashion. Their sans soufre bottlings are labeled as such.
Denny & Katie
Owners
Your friendly neighborhood wine shop and tiny bar, focused on small production wines and conservas. Connect with us on Instagram for suggestions on your next bottle and to follow along in our downtown Lafayette wine journey.
Visit us to shop and hang in person or order online for quick and easy pick up.
Hours
Tues-Thurs
1pm-7pm
Friday & Saturday
1pm-8pm
Closed Sunday & Monday