Skin-Contact White Wines, a.k.a. Orange Wine for Beginners

WINE ENTHUSIAST July 10, 2019

“Amber wine” is the preferred term for skin-contact wines from the Republic of Georgia, where the technique is said to have originated. The traditional method of winemaking used in the region is to let indigenous white grapes like Rkatsiteli and Tsolikouri ferment on their skins undisturbed in clay vessels called qvevri