Visit us to shop in person or order online and pick up in the shop.
Address
210 E. Vermilion Street, Lafayette, LA 70501
Hours
Mon, Wed, Thurs
1pm-7pm
Friday & Saturday
1pm-8pm
Closed Sunday & Tuesday
Keep it natural, baby.
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Sangiovese from Montepulciano and Merlot from Cortona are hand picked simultaneously, with the Merlot adding its full ripeness to the early picked tones of the Sangiovese. Both varieties are co-fermented in stainless steel semi-carbonically and with the use of indigenous yeasts and a small percentage (approximately 20%) of whole clusters. The juice spends 3 days on it's skins and then aged for 5 months in stainless steel. It has not been fined or filtered and is bottled without the addition of sulphates. The finished product has great energy and freshness with cool cherry sorbet fruits, violet petal and blackurrant acidity. It is delicious, fun, and funky made with minimal intervention in a light a super juicy style.
The Juice Asylum is a project started in 2016 by Alessio Guidi at Avignonesi Winery. Being a fanatic on all things quirky, interesting and above all terroir driven, he embraces the idea of allowing wine to have an experimental playground where the natural element is encouraged rather than denied and put into a ‘facility’ (an Asylum, if you will) for correction. Since so much time is spent on the selection of the grapes (sourced from biodynamic or organic vineyards at Avignonesi Winery) the idea is to use minimal intervention, co-fermentation and different styles of ageing to allow the wine to speak of where it is from rather than be ‘made’.
Katie and Denny
store owners
Your friendly neighborhood wine shop, focused on small production, organic and biodynamic, natural wines. 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 in person or order online and pick up in the shop.
Hours
Mon, Wed, Thurs
1pm-7pm
Friday & Saturday
1pm-8pm
Closed Sunday & Tuesday