Julien Meyer - Petit Fleur - Muscat de Maceration 2015

Patrick Meyer is the winemaker at the family owned Julien Meyer domaine in Northerly Alsace (Nothalten to be precise). He's been in the saddle for a while - since 1982 in fact. The domaine has been farmed biodynamically (Demeter certified) since 1985, and

Almost every week, Simon selects an orange wine (a white wine made with extended skin contact) that grabbed his attention. View the whole series here.

Aromatic grape varieties often seem to work well with skin contact. There are plenty of examples of "orange" Gewurztraminer that prove this point, but until I happened across this bottle I hadn't seen the approach tried with Muscat.

Patrick Meyer is the winemaker at the family owned Domaine Julien Meyer in Northerly Alsace (Nothalten to be precise). He's been in the saddle for a while - since 1982 in fact. The domaine has been farmed biodynamically (Demeter certified) since 1985, and Patrick spurns all additives including sulphur. More on that subject later!

I don't have any tech notes about this wine, but given its spicy, tannic structure I'm guessing there was quite a bit of skin contact - maybe a month or so? The deep russet gold colour suggests that too. By the way, previous vintages of this wine were not made with skin contact, and si…