Orange Wine
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Orange wine is a skin-contact white wine style produced across a broad range of regions, from Greece and Italy to Austria, California, New York, and Chile, where white grapes are fermented with their skins and seeds to extract tannin, color, and texture normally absent in conventional white winemaking. Maceration length determines everything: a few days yields the amber hue and gentle grip found in Venica & Venica's Jesera Pinot Grigio, while extended contact produces the deeper oxidative complexity of Domaine Glinavos Paleokerisio, made from ancient Zitsa varieties in Epirus. Indigenous grapes like Moschofilero in Troupis Hoof & Lur and Torontel in Maturana Naranjo bring floral and aromatic counterpoints, while Channing Daughters Ramato follows the traditional Friulian method of macerating Pinot Grigio to a copper-pink depth. Field Recordings Skins represents California's looser, fruit-forward interpretation of the form.
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Orange wine is a skin-contact white wine style produced across a broad range of regions, from Greece and Italy to Austria, California, New York, and Chile, where white grapes are fermented with their skins and seeds to extract tannin, color, and texture normally absent in conventional white winemaking. Maceration length determines everything: a few days yields the amber hue and gentle grip found in Venica & Venica's Jesera Pinot Grigio, while extended contact produces the deeper oxidative complexity of Domaine Glinavos Paleokerisio, made from ancient Zitsa varieties in Epirus. Indigenous grapes like Moschofilero in Troupis Hoof & Lur and Torontel in Maturana Naranjo bring floral and aromatic counterpoints, while Channing Daughters Ramato follows the traditional Friulian method of macerating Pinot Grigio to a copper-pink depth. Field Recordings Skins represents California's looser, fruit-forward interpretation of the form.
