'Please can you do an episode on orange wine?' pleaded listener David.

'It's not just hipster wine! These are some of the finest wines in the world...'

How could we resist?

Orange wine is topical, misunderstood, controversial...

It's also an intriguing story featuring a wine style lost in the mists of time being painstakingly resurrected by a handful of brave pioneers in the face of stiff opposition.

So we leap headlong into this arena, asking the all-important questions like: what even IS orange wine? Where did it come from? Why is it misunderstood and controversial? How does it relate to natural wine?

And ultimately: is orange wine actually any good?!

In this first instalment in a two-parter on orange wine, we talk to orange wine expert Simon Woolf, author of the brilliant book Amber Revolution: How the World Learned to Love Orange Wine. 

We also hear from Mateja Gravner of the iconic Friuli-based orange wine producer Gravner. And we recommend a couple of good value orange wines:

• Santa Tresa Insieme Orange 2022, Sicily
• Burja Estate Zelen 2022, Slovenia

 
Do also check out the second and concluding part of our orange wine 'fest' where we talk to natural and orange wine guru Doug Wregg of Les Caves de Pyrene, and renowned orange wine producer Saša Radikon. Plus we get into a fight over a particularly divisive orange wine...

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All details from this episode, including full listings of all the wines featured in the show, are on our website: Show notes for Wine Blast S5 E11 - ORANGE WINE Part 1: The Resurrection

Thanks for tuning in. Here's to the joy of wine - and cheers to you!