ORANGE WINES
ARE THESE WINES MADE FROM ORANGES?
NO! These wines are not made with oranges. Orange wine is very common in Georgia, often found in eastern Italy, Slovenia and Croatia, and now made by winemakers as far apart as South Africa, Spain, and USA.
Orange Wine: It is a type of white wine made by leaving the grape skins and seeds in contact with the juice, creating a deep orange-hued finished product.
Orange wine is also known as a skin-contact white wine, skin-fermented white wine, or AMBER WINE. It is a type of wine made from white wine grapes where the grape skin are not removed, and stays in contact with the juice for day, even months.
The practice has a long history, dating back hundreds of years in Slovenia and Friuli-Venezia Giulia, and thousand of years in the Eastern European wine producing country of Georgia. This practices was popular again by Italian and Slovenian winemakers, after visiting Georgia
In Georgia skin-contact white wine is historically known as AMBER WINE.
These wines have been described as robust and bold, with honeyed aromas of jackfruit (a fleshy tropical fruit), hazelnut, brazil nut, bruised apple, wood varnish, linseed oil, juniper, sourdough, and dried orange rind. On the palate, they are big, dry, even have tannin like a red wine with a sourness similar to fruit beer. Often Orange wines are so intense.
The deep color of Orange wine comes from lignin in grapeseed.
UNION SACRE WINERY AND ORANGE WINE
Union Sacré is an homage to the Alsace region of France and beauty’s odd ability to build unexpected bridges. These are not wines of privilege and power, these are wines made from a lifetime of labor for the untelevised tables that unite the very heart of the world.
The wines of Union Sacré are focused on elegant, single vineyard, single varietal wines that are table friendly. The vineyards we source from are in very unique coastal Californian micro-climates which are frequented by morning fog and cold nights.
VINTAGE 2020 VARIETAL Gewürztraminer APPELLATION Arroyo Seco VINEYARD(S) Los Ositos Vineyard ON ELEVAGE Aged in 900 gallons wood tank. ON FERMENTATION Native yeast. Fermented on skins for 40 days at 55°F. BOTTLING DATE 3/2020 ALCOHOL % 12.6
TASTING NOTES Orange blossom, honey suckle, potpourri and chamomile. ON PRODUCTION 100% destemmed. Unfiltered. ON THE NAME Citrus was once a rare and alluring item kept safe all year in a luxurious greenhouse, known as an orangerie, where nobles would invite their friends and guests to party and sample just one or two slices. Our orange wine shares a similar story, but this cult-favorite won’t last a year. CASES MADE 323 cases made.
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7750 El Camino Real St MB, Carlsbad, CA 92009
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References: Wine Folly. The Grape Geek, and The Morning Claret
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