Podcasts galore! Orange x Natural Wine & Oregon Wine Culture
In a previous life I must have been an orange because I am forever being asked to spout on about that colour. In relation to wine! It is a topic…
Orange Wines: An Affordable Squeeze
You have your Gravner, And your Radikon. And your Princic. And your Muster. And the Tscheppe brothers. And Zorjan. Amber wines aged with patience first on skins and then in…
Orange vs Skin Contact
Orange is a hottest-coolest colour in the wine spectrum. The colour denotes that grapes (which we might normally associate with white wines) have been macerated on their skins – as…
Orange Wines & Tasting in 3-D
If amber wines were music, they would be as live performances, fuzzy, rough-edged and unpredictable. Their tactility means that you can touch them at the same time as they touch…
Extraction and the Winemaker
Less is more except when the opposite is the case Extracting sunbeams from cucumbers may be beyond their capabilities, but some oenologists seem to have the alchemical inclination to squeeze…
Amber Wines and ASMR
I sometimes seek a quality in wine that can only be described as tactility. It is that quality wherein the liquid touches taste-buds in such a way both physically and…
Chatting with: Wine Writer Simon J Woolf
Award winning writer, natural wine expert and Decanter contributor Simon J Woolf today announced the launch of his first book Amber Revolution. Subtitled “How the world learned to love orange…
What is orange wine?
Orange is a colour in the wine spectrum. The colour denotes that grapes (which we may normally associate with white wines) have been macerated on their skins – as if…
Look Back In Amber
What is pink? a rose is pink By a fountain's brink. What is red? a poppy's red In its barley bed. What is blue? the sky is blue Where the…
Orange-boom and the irresistible rise of skin contact wines
Speaking of orange, the new film Skin Contact by Bottled Films features our very own Sir Wregg along with several of our growers. Watch the preview and head to Bottled Films's…