orange wine has gone mainstream!

Contelucio also makes a copper-colored pinot grigio with light skin contact, called Bellanotte. It's a pleasant drink.
 
originally posted by slaton:
Contelucio also makes a copper-colored pinot grigio with light skin contact, called Bellanotte. It's a pleasant drink.
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Livio Felluga used to make a copper-colored PG, too, though it's been more than a decade since I've seen or tried one. Never thought about it as orange wine, but I guess that maybe it is?

Mark Lipton
 
Hooray. I love orange wine.

Michigan has a nice orange wine this year (the lighting doesn't do it justice I'm afraid)

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Chateau Fontaine has vineyards that face directly south, something unusual in the Leelanau area. Sometimes the Chardonnay is a bit hazy. The Pinot Noir is always pale and full of bite. The Auxerrois ("Woodland White") is remarkably ripe and unctuous. And now this orange Pinot Gris, macerated overnight on the pinkish colored skins. They're all going on the new wine list at El Barzon.
 
Orange Wine is the confusing term for white wines fermented on the skins. Not just a few hours or overnight, but the whole fermentation. Follow the link on the opening of this thread and you will get a better idea. Pinot Gris (and Gewurztraminer for that matter) are pink skinned and some skin contact will give a coppery color to the wine.
 
I don't think it is a confusing term at all. It is actually quite apt.

To call something like Gravner a "white wine" is confusing.
 
The term is fine. It's simple enough, sticks with you, is mildly descriptive, and still vague enough to pique the curiousity of anyone within earshot of it.
 
Any thoughts on the Wimmer-Czerny Roter Veltliner? I have had the wine quite a bit, mostly about a year ago, but it is a lighter white that i believe has some skin contact with its "roter" colored berries. I'd argue that it is orange though on the lighter side of the spectrum.
 
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