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Orange and amber wine: white grapes on their skins, from Georgian qvevri to Collio and Goriška Brda.

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  1. Skin Contact White Wine / Orange Wine

    Winemaking 8 min

    Start with the style: white grapes fermented on their skins, known as orange or amber wine.

  2. Extended Maceration

    Wine term 8 min

    Set it beside the red-wine practice: extended maceration leaves skins, seeds and any stems in the wine after fermentation to shape color, flavor and tannin structure.

  3. Skin Contact White Wine (Orange Wine): Short (Days), Medium (Weeks), Extended (Months)

    Winemaking 9 min

    Time on the skins runs from days to months, and in 2020 the OIV recognised 'white wine with maceration' with a minimum maceration of one month.

  4. Qvevri Fermentation

    Winemaking 9 min

    The vessel: Georgian qvevri, large egg-shaped clay vessels buried underground where white grapes ferment and age on their skins, seeds and often stems.

  5. Georgia: The Ancient Cradle of Wine

    Region 6 min

    Georgia, where researchers have traced grape wine to about 6,000 to 5,800 BC, and which cites more than 525 local grape varieties.

  6. Kakheti

    Region 7 min

    Kakheti, eastern Georgia's most important winemaking region, where in the traditional method all the chacha (skins, stalks and pips) takes part in fermentation in qvevri.

  7. Rkatsiteli

    Grape 3 min

    Rkatsiteli, Georgia's dominant white grape, takes on amber color and honey and apricot notes in qvevri.

  8. Friuli-Venezia Giulia: Collio Goriziano / Collio DOC

    Region 9 min

    Cross to Collio in Friuli-Venezia Giulia, where Stanko Radikon and Josko Gravner turned to long skin contact in the mid-1990s and, per Decanter, the orange wine revival began in Oslavia.

  9. Ribolla Gialla

    Grape 7 min

    Ribolla Gialla, the Friulian grape with a starring role in the orange wine movement.

  10. Goriška Brda

    Region 7 min

    Over the border, Slovenia's Goriška Brda formed a single wine region with Collio before the border was imposed in 1947, and produces white and orange wines.

  11. Pinot Gris / Pinot Grigio

    Grape 12 min

    Pinot Grigio is one of the darkest-skinned grapes producing white wine, and Friuli's ramato is a skin-contact style made from it.

  12. Pinot Grigio Ramato: Friuli's Copper Skin-Contact Style

    Wine term 5 min

    That style has a name: ramato, from the Italian for copper, a short skin contact that gives Pinot Grigio a copper to pink colour and more texture than the familiar untinted wine.

  13. Rosé — Direct Press Method (Provence; Pale, Delicate Style)

    Winemaking 8 min

    End with the opposite approach: direct-press rosé takes the juice off the skins quickly for delicate wines that are pale in colour.

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