Variety: Mataro (Mourvédre)
Location: Calaveras County, CA
Alcohol: 12.4%

A light red with balanced acid and supple tannins. The 100% stem inclusion contributes white pepper on the nose with a spectrum of red to black fruit.

Hand-picked with 100% stem inclusion in the ferment. The fruit was given vigorous pigeage after pick and fermented in a small open-top vessel. The must received pigeage and/or punchdowns twice daily; fermentation lasted 12 days at which time the wine was pressed down to 500L puncheons of neutral oak. The wine was racked off of its lees at 9 months and saw a total of 11 months elevage. Bottled unfined & unfiltered with minimal effective SO2.

Grown on the Rorick estate vineyard in Calaveras County, on soils comprised of a layer of schist over dolomite-rich limestone. Elevation of the vineyard in 2000’. Mataro has a long history in California’s viticultural tradition, with many pre-Prohibition plantings still under cultivation across the state; while the newer French synonym ‘Mourvédre’ might be more widely recognized, Forlorn Hope pays homage to California’s viticultural pioneers as well as the origin of the vine by using its original name of Mataro.