The Morning Claret

Simon J Woolf & Friends on Wild and Wonderful Wines

Month: May 2015

Milan Nestarec - Tramin 2013
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Orange weekly: Milan Nestarec – Antica Tramin 2013

Skin contact traminers are a bit like London buses – you don’t see one for ages, then all of a sudden, two appear at once. I discovered this Czech beauty from Milan Nestarec at last week’s Raw Fair – always an inspiring event, and a fertile hunting ground for orange wines.

Andreas Gsellmann (picture courtesy www.gsellmann.at)
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Orange weekly: Gsellmann – Traminer 2013

Every week, I select an orange wine (a white wine made with extended skin contact) that grabbed my attention. View the whole series here. There’s a bit of a myth that aromatic white varieties don’t work well with extended skin Read more

La Stoppa - Ageno 2010
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Orange weekly: La Stoppa – Ageno 2010

This wine is one of relatively few standard bearers for the extended skin contact revival that’s not from Collio or Slovenian Brda. La Stoppa are based in Emilia Romagna, home to a rich, meaty cuisine and of course Lambrusco. Elena Pantaleoni makes this blend of Malvasia di Candia Aromatic, Ortugo and Trebbiano in honour of the estate’s founder Giancarlo Ageno.

Klinec - Ortodox 2006
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Aleks Klinec – Ortodox 2006

Aleks Klinec is brutally honest when I ask about his decision to switch entirely to traditional long skin maceration in 2005 – making only “orange wines” instead of some conventional white wines which were still in the portfolio: “We lost the entire Slovenian market – but it didn’t matter, because these wines sell well in the UK, Australia, US and so on”.