Forlorn Hope "NACRÉ" Sémillon, Yountville, Napa Valley, California 2015
Forlorn Hope "NACRÉ" Sémillon, Yountville, Napa Valley, California 2015
Forlorn Hope "NACRÉ" Sémillon, Yountville, Napa Valley, California 2015
Forlorn Hope "NACRÉ" Sémillon, Yountville, Napa Valley, California 2015

Forlorn Hope "NACRÉ" Sémillon, Yountville, Napa Valley, California 2015

Forlorn Hope
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"Taken from the Dutch ‘verloren hoop’, meaning ‘lost troop’, Forlorn Hope was the name given to the band of soldiers who volunteered to lead the charge directly into enemy defenses. The chance of success for the Forlorn Hope was always slim, but the glory and rewards granted to survivors ensured no shortage of applicants."
"The fruit for our 2014 Nacré was hand-picked and pressed whole cluster, and underwent spontaneous/native fermentation in stainless steel. Racked off lees at the completion of ferment, the wine was bottled in June of 2016 in order to allow the significant portion of the wine’s aging and development to occur under cork. To this end, it was aged six+ years in bottle prior to its release. The Nacré is produced in the same fashion as the Sémillons of Australia’s Hunter Valley and is capable of decades of aging. The wine bears the name Nacré -- meaning mother-of-pearl -- as a testament to its affinity for pairing with oysters. Crisp, racy and focused, with layer upon layer of flavor that opens up with decantation."
 
Varieties: 100% Semillon
Region: Yountville, Napa Valley, California
Volume: 750ml
Alcohol: 11.31% ABV
Farming Practice: Practicing organic and dry farmed
Soil Type: Alluvial loam, river cobble, and volcanic
Sulfur: unknown

Forlorn Hope

Winemaker Matthew Rorick is a one-man operation in the winery, tending each fermentation and guiding the wine's cellaring through to bottle. Each of the Forlorn Hope wines is a window into the vineyard in a particular vintage; vital to this is a partnership with growers who share the vision of achieving balanced ripeness on the vine that requires no further adjustment, additions or manipulation in the winery during fermentation. The result yields wines that are an honest and natural representation of site and vine.

"At Matthew Rorick Wines, we love the longshots. We love the outsiders, the lost causes, the people/projects/ideas abandoned as not having a chance in the world. We love the longshots because we are all about tenacity, we relish a challenge, and we admit that we love us a good tussle."

Forlorn Hope as a name has its origins in the Dutch phrase verloren hoop, meaning literally "lost troop."  This was mistranslated into Forlorn Hope as far back as the English Civil War as the name given to the band of soldiers who volunteered to lead the charge directly into enemy defenses or who were positioned in an exposed outpost. And like these soldiers, the chance of success for the early Forlorn Hope team always seemed slim, but the glory and rewards granted to survivors ensured no shortage of applicants to join the cause today.

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