Here’s an odd one. It’s an orange wine, but Pinot Gris has reddish berries (as grapes are technically known). So, if you make an orange wine out of it, it looks like a rosé rather than most orange wines. In the glass Clear and bright. I’m going to call it pale. Yeah, I know, it […]
Category: orange wine
The English Winemaker. Mascot 2018, Piedmont, Italy
When I was in Nottingham, I was browsing the website of Brigitte Bordeaux, to get an idea if there was something I didn’t want to miss picking up. I saw this one. It’s been awhile since I’ve had an orange wine from Italy, and I think never from Piedmont, so I picked up a bottle. […]
Judith Beck Neuburger Bambule!, 2016, Burgenland, Austria
Bambule! is Judith Beck’s low-intervention range of wines. Neuburger is an Austrian white grape. This is a skin-contact wine, often known as an orange wine. It’s a wine made with white wine grapes, but as with a red wine, the grape skins are left in contact with the juice to extract flavour and tannins. This […]