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8 best orange wines to raise a glass...
We’ve tracked down the best orange wines from around the world, including Wales, Italy and Romania (The Independent)
The Independent | 04 July 2024
Forget funky, unpalatable and highly acidic drinks that once masqueraded as wines when orange vino first hit the shelves. It's moved on to become an exciting style that's well worth getting to know, and we’ve been busy rounding up the best orange wines from across the globe.
Skin-contact wines have been having a moment for some time now, though orange wines (also known as amber and skin-contact wines) have the oldest viticulture history in the world – Georgians have been fermenting such wine in clay pots (known as qvevri) underground for more than 8,000 years.
Weekday Wines
The Decanter in-house tasting team takes time out to discover new and exciting wines, or new vintages of existing wines, for everyday drinking.
Decanter | May 2024
Amongst a recent selection of French and Spanish wines the team picked out Red Pét Nat from Ancre Hill Estate as a "must try fizz".
A blend of Triomphe and Chardonnay the lightly fizzy Ancre Hill Estate Red Pét Nat is typically made in the Entre’acte (Intermission) Méthode Ancestrale - new vintage juice blended with previous vintage base wine whilst still fermenting.
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Matthew Jukes praises Ancre Hill Estate wines
Blanc de Noirs
Vineyard Magazine | April 2024
I adore the four-year-long lees contact and lack of interventions during the entire making of this (Blanc de Noirs) wine. But what I value more than any of these badges is the flavour of this deeply invigorating and resplendent wine. This is not only a decent Welsh drop but also a wildly delicious Pinot Noir that teases all the senses with its restless energy and eventual completeness."
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If you said name two sustainable wineries to me, my knee-jerk response would be Ancre Hill
Vineyard Magazine | June 2020
Ancre Hill Estate is a leader in the production of organic, biodynamic and natural wines as much as in the closed circles principles employed for sourcing of materials within their farm and its near carbon-neutral set-up. Just taste my favourite current release to see how pure and vital it is - 2018 Ancre Hill Chardonnay has superb balance, with a bitter grape skin tang and a juicy lemon-grass core."
Yes, Wales makes wine - and some of the best in the country
Susy Atkins | June 2021
Its wines might not be well known (yet) but there’s a revolution taking place in the land of song
Welsh wines are far less known than their English counterparts, but orders are on the rise... last week was Welsh Wine Week, and with these wines far less well known, expert wine journalist and author Susy Atkins decided to find out more.
Ancre Hill Estates Orange Wine in the Top 30
Simon J Woolf | July 2020
The top 'Amber Champions' for Decanter magazine
Albariño isn't such a crazy idea in Wales. It’s just about as wet as its homelands in Galicia! With 45 days of skin contact during a whole-bunch fermentation, this emerges featherlight and fresh as a daisy, with bruised apple and pear fruit plus hints of hay and camomile. One of the few orange wines that really is quite shockingly orange in colour: delicious and great fun. A small part of the blend is 2016 Chardonnay. "
Who needs the Loire Valley when we have Wales?
Rose Murray Brown | August 2020
Of all the newcomers my pick of the bunch would be Ancre Hill Estate
I admire the Morris' ethos of terroir-driven wines with minimum intervention - with recently launched Orange Wine based on native Spanish albariño grape and their Pét Nat - a lighter fizz based on Triomphe..."
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