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Chenin Blanc is remarkable in the versatility of styles it can be crafted into. This time it shines in the form of a skin contact white from Swartland, South Africa. Organically grown fruit from 50 year old vines was fermented for 8 days on skins and aged for a further 4 months in large format oak. ...

Appropriately, Waihonga translates to nectare. Of the gods we'd say, this is beautifully balanced skin contact Pinot Gris. Like biting into a piece of just-picked stone fruit, it has texture and firmness, with orange pith, ginger and apricot aromatics. Fruit from the Osawa Vineyard in Hawkes Bay was...

F ck yeah, the aromatics on this are something. Lemon peel, orchard fruits, chamomile, black pepper. It’s exuberance in fragrance is met by a very fresh, harmonious palate, that’s citrusy with a tea-like tannic structure. It’s a blend of local Sicilian varieties Zibibbo and Albanello, organica...

For all its honeyed, tropical fruited flavour, this wine finishes super dry with length and firmness. It’s a ripper, but we have to be upfront with you. Despite calling this an orange wine, there’s actually no skin contact in its making. The grape variety Mantonico has such thick skins that even...

Orange peel, sweet spices, thyme and tropical fruit, this is a feast of flavour. It’s bright, juicy and energetic to taste. The varietal mix of this wine varies from year to year, the 2021 being made from Chardonnay and Sauvignon Blanc. Hand harvested fruit was wild fermented on skins for a week, ...

We love that this is richly flavoured, all apricots, peach, orange rind, pineapple and ginger, but it's super dry with a rindy grip. Albana, a thick skinned variety that's native to Emilia Romagna, is organically grown on the calcareous clay soils at Tre Monti and fermented in stainless steel.Sergio...

If you’ve got that mate that’s on the fence about orange wine, this will get them over it for sure. It’s one of our favourites in this style, for its beautiful texture and length. It’s both generous in flavour and delicate. The aromatics are enticing - citrus florals, honey, ginger and orang...

This is lightly perfumed, with the kind of quenching tang of a G&T after a hot day. Pinot Gris, Muscat clone Chardonnay and Sauvignon Blanc were sourced from the organic Osawa and Paritua vineyards and fermented on skins. It’s all fragrant and pretty and easy to get around. This is underpinned by ...

There’s a light touch to this skin contact blend that we love. It has floral and ginger aromatics, and is crisp and bright with a stone fruit skin-like pithiness. Sauvignon Blanc, Pinot Gris, Riesling and Pinot Noir are hand picked from three Awatere vineyards in Marlborough. The varieties are fer...

There’s heaps going here aromatically - sweet navel orange, tropical fruit, lychee, honey and gingery spice. It’s succulent and weighty to taste, levelled out by firm dryness. It’s 100% organically grown Sauvignon Blanc, and this expression of our most planted variety will blow your mind. Afte...

Not afraid to experiment, Craig and Cara Hawkins of Testalonga first took Muscat d’Alexandrie, otherwise grown for table grapes, and fermented it on skins in 2013. Safe to say it was a success. This 2018 has the varieties inviting, lifted, floral and honeyed aromatics. The palate is supple, rich a...

There’s such a beautiful array of flavours here - honeysuckle, lemon rind, apricot, sage. A softness of texture in the mid palate is balanced by nervy, zesty freshness on the finish. Nosiola is the grape variety, and a native to the Trentino region in Italy. Fontanasanta is the vineyard, and one t...

This is fragrant and light, with delicious pithy, herbal freshness, and is a reference to the golden summer weather of Heretaunga. It’s skin-fermented Sauvignon Blanc from the certified organic Osawa Vineyard. We can’t help but think how perfect this would be with raw fish - whether it’s crudo...

A juicy, medium bodied orange wine that you will want to keep sipping. Gentle, mouthwatering phenolics wrapped around a hit of peaches and cream, orange rind, stewed red apple and nectarine. An orange all rounder.From their 5 hectare, organic vineyard in Nelson, Rob and Kate Burley produce balanced,...

A Sicilian orange wine with real presence. Rami blends equal parts Insolia and Grecanico, with a short period of skin contact to bring gentle texture and shape to the wine. Expect ripe stone fruit, citrus peel, subtle spice and a light, pleasing grip. It’s both sunny and savoury, with that easy, e...

We reckon Pinot Gris is superbly well-suited to being made with skin contact. Case in point right here. Sourced from the certified organic Osawa vineyard in Hawkes Bay, Amy gives the fruit a 3 and half weeks on skins before aging in Amphora. We looooove that this is broad and juicy. There’s plenty...

This is the pretty, charming side of orange wine. It's lifted in floral and stone fruit aromatics, with freshness and a touch of pithiness on the finish. Gewurztraminer, Pinot Gris and Riesling were hand picked, destemmed and fermented on skins for 28 days.Named after the hardy mountain goats that r...