Orange wine?

Gravner I meant :)

er(written from oral sounds)? Appaerently it is a term used for white wines made like redwines? I remember maria from lopez heredia descriped their to ndonia GR bianco as a white redwine. I wonder if "orange" wines taste simil ar to this?

Lopez de Heredia Tondonia is definitely orange for my vision.

I've had a number of so-caled "orange" wines, including those by Radikon and Gravner from Friuli/Slovenia and also various American entrants. They tend to have some tannins imparted by the longer skin contact, and also have a flavor profile marked by scents of citrus rind and various spices. LdH blanco is similar though not identical in character to those wines.

Mark Lipton

Michael Nielsen wrote in news: snipped-for-privacy@googlegroups.com:

I only had one wine by Gravner, and I did not like it. That does not mean that it is a bad wine or the style is bad.

Regarding Tondonia, I usually think that their reds resemble white wines (for their lightness) while their whites resemble red wines (for the structure).

s.

An orange wine is a... noir de blancs. So yes, a white red wine. In some pl aces, like Italy, many whites were made in this way before white winemaking evolved. The best ones are full of character and open up new possibilities in food matching - I find pork lends itself well to this, the tannins are there but not enough to create that horrendous mouthful-of-dust combination of tannic wine and fat.

There is a tendency, a trend even, to go a little overboard with these wine s, so many are marked by severe defects, yet some people have developed a t aste for these. Nothing wrong with that, except many are militant about it and will refuse a properly made white as "too refined".

Mike