Orange wine? A fuller body and tannic texture put you in the mood for Fall but its orchard stone-fruit flavours remind you of summer!
Our Orange (Organic Skin-Fermented White) is truly in vogue these days! But you don’t need to be a trendsetter or oenophile to enjoy this wine, especially now with autumn harvest foods.
We’d like to suggest something different for your Thanksgiving table: Roast pork (or pork chops) with roasted sweet potatoes and cranberry sauce paired with Frogpond Farm Organic Orange wine.
The wine with its characteristic sourdough and bruised apple flavours will balance the sweetness of the pork and sweet potatoes while singing in tune with the cranberry sauce.
Although a trendy wine today, Orange wines are not new and date back at least 5000 years (in the Caucasus Mountains) to the the practice of fermenting white and red grapes on their skins. In the Republic of Georgia, these wines are still placed in clay pots (qvevri), sealed with beeswax, and buried in the ground. Modern wine making techniques with orange wines vary from no interventions to some minor ones (e.g., filtering). But all orange wines will have …
- an orange copper colour
- a slight tannic astringency
- a sourness similar to fruit beers or Belgian lambics
- some apple and stone-fruit (peach, nectarine, apricot) flavours
- hints of honey and nuttiness
Orange wine can substitute for red wine to complement a meal. It is perfect for …
- charcuterie boards
- strong cheeses & olives
- Fall foods like squash, mushrooms, kale and other bitter greens
- roasted dishes including a variety of meats
Why not go Orange … and take advantage of our current promotion of free shipping (on wine orders of $150 CAD until October 22/18). Use promo code: fallfreeship
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