ORANGE features a selection of macerations which invigorate and excite. Offering examples so filigree and fine they could be classified as genre-defying, alongside those with enough flesh and grip to stand up to the most robust of cooking, few wines are as versatile on the table as these.
LE COSTE
Bianco 2022
Lazio, Italy
Mostly Procanico with the balance being made up of Malvasia, Roscetto, Pedino, Vermentino, Romanesco and Ansonica from vineyards young and old. From a cooler vintage, this saw a shorter maceration of just five days, before being pressed off to old casks for a year of élevage. Straw yellow in the glass, this is wonderfully light on its feet, with delicate notes of lemon zest, sea salt and minerals offering refreshment in spades.
Procanico, Malvasia, Roscetto, Pedino, Vermentino, Romanesco, Ansonica
CANTINA GIARDINO
Adam 2022
Campania, Italy
This remarkable wine comes from ninety year old vines of Greco planted at an altitude of five hundred metres in Taurasi. Five days on the skins, followed by fifteen months resting in acacia casks has rendered a compact, powerful wine where density of fruit, tannin and acidity exist in the kind of harmony that suggests it will reward drinkers for many years to come.
Greco
TUTTI FRUTTI ANANAS
Nespola 2023
Roussillon, France
This wonderfully vibrant wine is made by infusing whole bunches of Vermentino in the fermenting juice of Grenache Blanc for two weeks. After pressing, the wine is transferred to concrete vats for a brief rest. A beautiful, hazy shade of sunset, the fruit is framed with gentle tannin and just the right amount of orange zest and spice.
Vermentino, Grenache Blanc