One year of skin contact - Strohmeier Wein der Stille 2013

Regular readers will have noticed I've featured a few wines in this slot that merely flirt with the orange wine category. So to end the first year of these orange segments, here's an all-out, serious contender made with 12 months of maceration: Strohmeier

Every week, I select an orange wine (a white wine made with extended skin contact) that grabbed my attention. View the whole series here.

I admit it, I've been namby-pambying around for the last few weeks. Regular readers (I like to imagine there are some) will have noticed I've featured a few wines in this slot that merely flirt with the orange wine category. So to end the first year of these orange segments, here's an all-out, serious contender made with 12 months of maceration.

Franz & Christine Strohmeier have a quiet intensity and focus which transmits itself quite effectively through their wines.Their 10ha of vineyards are situated in Western Styria, Austria. You have only to look at the primordial logo, and the bottles with their paper hats and strings to realise this is quite an individual estate. The Strohmeiers are part of the Schmecke das Leben "collective" of five wineries, namely Muster, Tauss, Werlitsch and Andreas Tscheppe.

The Strohmeiers originally made a name as a sekt …