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| Today, four orange wines, because orange wines now more than ever. We are starting with a wine from Bea which gets nearly a month of maceration and made from a field blend of five co-planted grapes: grachetto, malvasia (no idea which malvasia, as there are at least 20 different grapes with this name, but my guess is that it is the aromatic malvasia di candia), chardonnay, sauvignon and garganega. Next, a wine from Piemont made from old vine cortese, a grape that is not one of Italy’s most exciting white varieties, but with a bit of skin contact as is the case here, it is. To follow, another orange wine made from a grape that is also not one of the most exciting varieties of its country, in this case, Spain, but again with skin contact, it is. To finish, a low alcohol sémillon from Dirty and Rowdy, a portion of which macerates for nearly a month, and the whole thing aged in notorious concrete egg.
Paolo Bea “Santa Chiara” Umbria Bianco 2016 |