Le Due Terre - Sacrisassi Bianco 2013

It's starting to become a theme in this series - edge cases which are not really orange wines. Take the sole white wine from microscopic but world reknowned Le Due Terre, in Friuli Colli Orientali. A blend of Friulano with 30% Ribolla Gialla, it has 10-12

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

Edge cases are starting to become a theme in this series - they're everywhere when you start to look. Of course it's problematic being stuck with a term like "orange wine" - even though the vernacular is convenient, catchy, and now almost universally adopted (even Vogue magazine, for goodness sake!).

Take the sole white wine from tiny but world renowned Le Due Terre, in Friuli Colli Orientali. A blend of Friulano with 30% Ribolla Gialla, it has 10-12 days of skin contact, and is spontaneously fermented with minimal temperature control. Despite ticking boxes on a technical level, it definitely doesn't fit the "orange wine" moniker in a stylistic sense.

Sacrisassi Bianco does however demonstrate the versatility and effectiveness of extended skin maceration for producing stunning white wines.