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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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The grapes are direct press to ferment and age in wood casks and oak barrels. Each parcel at the estate is individually and often co-planted in red and white grapes. Many are always destined to the "basic" Crozes-Hermitage or Saint-Joseph blend but specific parcels have over the years been identified as particularly expressive and worthy of single vineyard bottlings.
René-Jean Dard and François Ribo started their estate in 1983 in a back street of Tain-l'Hermitage. There was about a hecatre from Dard’s family, all the rest was rented or slowly acquired over the years.
In their cellar, part of a large farm building in the hamlet of Blanche-Laine in Mercurol, they craft subtle, unextracted Syrah for immediate enjoyment (though the wines age beautifully) and several whites from Roussanne and Marsanne.
“What we like is natural wine because it’s alive, wine that does not necessarily have to be kept – just drunk and drunk again.”
What is different with them is that they view Syrah as a grape giving elegant and pleasant wines, rather than sturdy, big, tannic wines. They want their wines to taste well quickly, not after years of cellaring to dissipate hard tannins. They tend to vinify by plot, because they have such a wide variety of terroir and vine ages.
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