Skin Contact (Orange)
Skin Contact (Orange)
Jousset 2020 'KM 510' Vin de France
'KM 510' is a collaboration of six hands, including those of Lise and Bertrand Jousset and their friend and winemaker Sébastien Fezas from Gascogne. The name is a reference to the distance between the Jousset's home in Montlouis-sur-Loire and Sébastien's...
$39.99
COZs 2022 VP Vital
100% Vital from the limestone-rich soils of the Vinha da Pena vineyard (planted 1982) in the Sierra de Montejunto, 15 km from the Atlantic. After 2 days of non-fermentative maceration on the skins in large casks, the wine is pressed...
$29.99
Henriquez, Roberto 2024 Semillon Fundo La Unión Itata Valley
From a plot of 150-year-old Semillon vines about 8 kilometers from the Pacific ocean, planted on the granitic soils of the Itata valley. This is Roberto Henriquez’s warmest plot of vines but it is blessed by sea breezes. Like the...
$28.99
Eminence Road 2024 Pinot Gris Five Dots
This is all Pinot Gris from Sheldrake Point Vineyard on Cayuga Lake, east facing vines on a gentle slope of gravelly loam and clay derived from shale, limestone and slate. The grapes see five days maceration and age in stainless...
$24.99
Berry-Althoff 2023 IGP Gard Infusion
Infusion is a blend of near equal parts Chardonnay and Viognier, which see two weeks maceration on skins before aging sixteen months in clay amphorae. These are estate vines located in the Liverna in Aubais (Gard), planted on limestone soils....
$33.99
Frick, Pierre 2022 Alsace Vorbourg Pinot Gris Maceration
Though it seems like a relatively new category, it turns out winemakers in Alsace have been making skin contact wines for some time. The first may have been Bannwarth, who experimented with qvevri (georgian clay anforae). Then, along with the...
$41.99
Ancarani 2023 Andataeritorno
40% Albana, 40% Famoso, 10% Pignoletto, 10% Trebbiano di Romagna, all grapes native to Romagna! A brief 24 hours of skin contact gives us a lovely baby orange wine with incredible texture, notes of ginger, apple, and peach. Tending the...
$28.99
Paraschos 2021 Collio Pinot Grigio Not Riserva
From the Slatnik vineyard comes this gouegous rhubarb, sour cherry, and cardamon scented Pinot Grigio. Half of the grapes are direct press and half are macerated bringing a stunning burnt orange / onion skin color. The food pairing ideas are...
$47.99
