
Skin Contact, With or Without the Orange
I started wanting to talk about orange wine, what I thought of as skin fermented white wine that has a beautiful orange or amber color. No, there are no oranges used in production. But the topic is much more nuanced than just the color orange. However, a white wine can have skin contact, but not necessarily be skin fermented. It depends how long that skin contact takes place and the varietal used. Some are thicker or more concentrated than others and take better advantage of