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.
CANTINA GIARDINO
Paski 2022
Campania, Italy
From seventy year old vines of Coda di Volpe planted around four hundred and fifty metres above sea level, it spent four days on skins before being pressed off to chestnut casks for a year. Hazy, straw yellow in the glass, it pairs a trio of ripe fruit, petroleum and minerals to beautiful effect.
Coda di Volpe
LE COSTE
Bianco 2021
Lazio, Italy
Mostly Procanico with the balance being made up of Malvasia, Roscetto, Pedino, Vermentino, Romanesco and Ansonica from vineyards young and old. From arguably their best ever vintage, here the grapes were destemmed and macerated for a fortnight before being pressed off to old casks for a year of élevage. A gorgeous, pale shade of gold in the glass, this is remarkably fine boned, with neat tannins framing gentle notes of citrus zest and minerals. A wine of impeccable balance, every detail appears to be in place.
Procanico, Malvasia, Roscetto, Pedino, Vermentino, Romanesco, Ansonica
CERRUTI
Mac Fol 2022
Piedmont, Italy
This elegant maceration of Moscato was fermented on the skins for two weeks in concrete vats, before being pressed off to large old casks for two years of rest. A brilliant shade of gold, fine tannins frame warming flavours of tangerine, menthol and spice.
Moscato