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
GAZZETTA
Bianco Susanna 2023
Lazio, Italy
This wonderfully vibrant wine is a blend of Trebbiano, Procanico and Ansonica from forty year old vines planted over volcanic soils. It spent just two days on the skins, before ten months of rest in vats and reflecting the cool vintage, it is incredibly light on its feet, with faint tannins framing gentle flavours of citrus, smoke and spice. As easy-going as they come, it feels somehow synonymous with spring.
Trebbiano, Procanico, Ansonica