Making orange wine in the Douro Valley - Part 1

It started with a seemingly innocent question from Oscar Quevedo: "Simon, do you know how to make an orange wine?". Oscar isn't stupid of course, he knew damn well I'd have something to say on the subject.

We were sat in the tasting room at Quevedo, a port and still wine producer in the Cima Corgo sub-region of the Douro valley, on a typically roasting hot July day. The question came completely out of the blue. "Well, theoretically yes. I've never made one, but I've visited and talked to maybe 50 producers who have".