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...
$42.99
Paraschos 2021 Venezia Giulia Orange One
A traditional Gorizia blend of Ribolla Gialla, Malvasia, and Friuliano. Quite soft and approachable orange wine, not the intense bold tannic style that can come from long macerations. Here the Paraschos family is macerating for just a couple days, creating...
$36.99
Finot, Thomas 2022 Maceration Cugnete
Like a walk through the forests of the French alps, this year's Maceration, which is made with Jacquere and Verdesse, is a veritable explosion of pine cones, tangerine & Melon de Cavaillon with supple acidity, velvety tannins whilst sporting a...
$34.99
Bistro Louis Severine 2024 Julien
100% Riesling from steep granitic slopes in Dambach-la-Ville. Grapes are hand harvested and see seven days of whole-cluster maceration before aging in old barriques. Unfined, unfiltered and no added sulfur. It's packed with bright citrus fruit, not quite full-on orange...
$46.99
Bistro Louis Severine 2024 Chrysalis
This is a collaboration with Christian Binner - a delicious blend of Sylvaner, Pinot Noir and Muscat Ottonel, co-macerated with whole clusters for seven days before being basket pressed and aged in a single old barrel. No added sulfur, unfined...
$56.99
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
2Naturkinder 2022 Silvaner Zweite Heimat
From a Single-plot in Rödelsee; old vines planted in 1989 on Keuper bedrock. 100% Silvaner that is destemmed and crushed, then left to macerate on skins for ten days where fermentation begins slowly. Wine is pressed and fermentation continues in...
$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...
$31.99
COZs 2023 POP Branco
From the importer: "POP Branco Macerado is mostly Vital with about 15% Rabo de Ovelha, sourced from five vineyard sites ranging in age, the oldest dating to 1973 and the youngest from 2013. The vines are rooted in clay-limestone soils....
$24.99
Zidarich 2020 Vitovska Venezia-Giulia Bianco
Aged for two years in large Slavonian casks, the Vitovska is a seamless and deeply stony wine. Its fruit character veers toward apricot and peach, yet in a subtle way—the limestone is doing the heavy lifting here, with the Vitovska...
$44.99
Gravner 2016 Venezia Giulia Ribolla
Gravner’s cellar methodology for the indigenous Ribolla is simple, if extreme: bunches, harvested by hand, are transferred by gravity into subterranean amphorae, where they macerate for several weeks; the wine is then pressed and moved back into amphorae for five...
$139.99
Erggelet Brothers 2022 Malvasia Bianca
Julian and Sebastian Erggelet grew up in southern Germany, but moved to California in 2014 to pursue a career making wine. They began to release their own wines under the Erggelet Brothers label in 2019, utilizing grapes grown across Contra...
$31.99
Fuso 2024 Terre Siciliane Cala Bianco
A lovely 'vino quotidiano' or everyday wine coming from West of Palermo, Sicily. 100% Catarratto harvested a touch early to preserve acidity, then spends 50 hours on the skins in stainless steel tanks. Peaches, apples, citrus pith, and a long...
$19.99
Cabeças do Reguengo 2023 Respiro Lagar Branco
A field blend of indigenous white varieties from two small centenarian vineyards at around 50.00 meters of elevation. The grapes were foot trodden in lagar and allowed to ferment on the skins. The wine was then aged for 9 months...
$18.99
Matassa 2025 Olla Blanc Vin de France
The wine comes from a single vineyard (Coume de l'Olla) of clay and limestone. Maceration is with whole clusters for 2 weeks, and aging is in concrete. The blend here is Macabeu, Muscat Petit Grains, and Muscat d'Alexandria. A nice...
$33.99
Matassa 2025 Cuvée Marguerite
Cuvée Marguerite is named after the grandmother of Tom's wife Nathalie, who was apparently the last matriarch of the family to speak Catalan as her first language. The grapes come from three parcels, and the wine is a blend of...
$42.99
Cornelissen, Frank 2023 Terre Siciliane Susucaru Patos Bianco
Only the third vintage of this skin contact wine from Frank Cornelissen. The grape is Catarratto Extra Lucido from Menfi with 10 days of skin contact and aging in neutral vessels. Highly aromatic and explodes from the glass with orange...
$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
