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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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In Marco’s words - Assembly of the red grapes of my vineyard, vinified for half without contact with the skins and for the remaining part with a short maceration of 4 days. After fermentation, separate refinements in fiberglass and then, on the first day of winter, December 21st, final assembly. Dedicated to Ferdinand Bardamú, protagonist of the “Voyage au boits de la nuits“, by my beloved Louis Ferdinand Celine. It is the wine that most of all has been together with my anxieties of autumn, the tormented period of fermentations: the personal fear of showing the kind part of my soul.
“il Signor Kurtz”, a reference to the antagonist in Joseph Conrad’s literary classic Heart of Darkness, is the wine-vision and quasi-alter-ego of one of Italy’s most thoughtful, capable and exciting next-generation winemakers - Marco Durante. Marco has a small vineyard at his home in the small village of Vallupina, on a hill near lake Trasimeno in Umbria. After spending much of his adult life, as Marco puts it, as “a wine enthusiast, as a taster, even a scribbler and sometimes a divulger”, he shed the shackles of his day job and knocked on the door of Danilo Marcucci at Conestabile della Staffa and pleaded with Danilo to take him under his wing. He was Danilo’s right-hand man for a number of years.
”il Signor Kurtz” is Marco’s introduction to the world as a headliner in his own right, though performed with Marco’s trademark humbleness toward the power of nature, the voice of the grapes, and spontaneous decision making based on the conditions of fermentation (and his own emotions at the time). Marco has a distaste for the predictable and the banal. He wants to let the wines sing with their own energy. He embraces tradition, yet leaves himself unchained by it to propel his winemaking into the future.
His winemaking is totally natural - spontaneous fermentations, aging in neutral vessels, no sulfur additions and no filtering or fining.
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