A first for me...orange wine. A little while ago my sister-in-law and her sister took a trip to Slovenia to visit the country of their maternal roots. One day while flipping through some random reading, I came upon an article about orange wine production in Slovenia and passed it along to her. A little while later, another orange wine article popped up and it was about the growth of orange wine production in Georgia (not the US state). A couple weeks ago while in Chicago, my daughter and son-in-law took us Heritage Restaurant and Caviar Bar and this lovely Michelin Plate restaurant is owned and run by a Ukrainian couple. On their wine menu was an orange wine from Georgia. Sooooo...had to order a glass.
According to Wine Folly, "To make an orange wine, you first take white grapes, mash them up, and then put them in a large vessel (often cement or ceramic). Then, you typically leave the fermenting grapes alone for four days to sometimes over a year with the skins and seeds still attached. This is a natural process that uses little to no additives, sometimes not even yeast. Because of all this, they taste very different from regular white wines and have a sour taste and nuttiness from oxidation." The color comes from the grapeseeds.
The process of making Orange wine is ancient and this process has only resurfaced in the last 20 odd years. Orange wine was made in Caucasus (modern day Georgia) 5000 years ago. What goes around comes around, even if it takes 5000 years!
So many things to try and savor.
ReplyDeleteI learned something new. I had never heard of orange wine. Now I'll have to watch for it.
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