Variety: 100% Mondeuse
Location: Calaveras County, CA
Alcohol: 12.9%

This wine has more palate presence than the 2018 version, perhaps due to a longer maceration of extended bottle aging. There is a luscious yet delicate weight reminiscent of the airy richness of spongecake strewn with strawberries, ripe plum and bitter cherry. Dynamic tension plays between lightness and lift with noticeable crunchy cranberry-like acid.

Fruit was hand-picked and lightly foot tread. It was gently and slowly pressed, settled and racked to neutral 227L barrique where it underwent primary fermentation. After 11 months in barrel the wine went en tirage for a second bottle fermentation. It matured in bottle for 36 months until the spring of 2023 when it was disgorged with zero dosage.

Forlorn Hope's estate wines are grown on Rorick Heritage Vineyard. Located in Calaveras County, just outside of the town of Murphys in the Sierra Foothills. Matthew Rorick purchased the property in 2013 and converted the farming to organic practices. At an elevation of 2000′, it is situated on limestone soils beneath a top layer of schist.