Orange Wines

There was this article in Decanter about orange wines a couple of weeks ago. In the tradition of this blog, I've already covered some aspects of this topic at different times before, with the latest entry a couple of months ago about a French Chardonnay fermented in clay vessels. It seems that the Mtsvane (probably) and the Kisi (definitely) wines fermented in qveri are also orange wines. However, I have not "defined" orange wines as yet. Orange wines are wines made from traditional white wine grapes, given extended fruit and skins maceration (can be thought of as white wines made like reds). This method has a long history but the pursuit of fresh fruity whites meant the style had fallen out of favour, only to have a recent renaissance. The Decanter article also makes suggestions about producers to try, otherwise try and search out the ones I have blogged here.