Das ist keine Orange, Schloss Mühlenhof - 2020

Name: Das ist keine Orange, Schloss Mühlenhof
Brand: Schloss Mühlenhoff
SKU: 44267
Price: 16.12 USD
Availability: OutOfStock

750 mL

Item # 44267

An accessible orange wine made from a blend of white grapes that are anywhere from 15 to 30 years old. The vines are planted on calcareous clay soils. The grapes were hand-harvested together in early October, allowed to macerate for eight weeks on skins with spontaneous fermentation in stainless steel lasting eight weeks. Unfiltered. Not an extreme type of orange wine but just lightly colored and slightly cloudy.

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Color

White

Vintage

2020

Country

Germany

Region

Rheinhessen

Producer

Schloss Mühlenhoff

Grape Variety

Müller-Thurgau

Muscat

Pinot Blanc

Riesling

Production Methods

Practicing Organic

Wine made from grapes grown without synthetic pesticides, fertilizers and herbicides in the vineyard.

Orange Wine (Skin Contact)

Orange wine is made by using white wine grapes, which are pressed and left in contact with the skins, seeds, and stems for an extended period of time, similar to how red wine is made.

This prolonged maceration extracts color, tannins, and phenols, giving the wine a darker, sometimes orange color. It also produces a wine with more structure and intense flavor.

Maceration times can vary between a few hours to many months, with longer contact giving more color and extraction.

Staff Pick Notes

“Das ist keine orange” is a wonderful first foray into the wild world of orange wines. It has the classic slight tannic bitterness from spending time on the skins and just a little bit of earthiness without going into an extreme funk zone. With minimal skin contact, the wine takes on a subtle straw-like hue, rather than the deep yellows, golds, and oranges of longer macerated wines. It's also unfiltered, making it cloudy with very visible fine sediment. White flowers and bitter grapefruit stand out the most for me, with light tannin and lively acidity. Das is keine orange, das ist ein wein.

- TI

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