{"id":24330,"date":"2019-08-21T14:44:48","date_gmt":"2019-08-21T14:44:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/?p=24330"},"modified":"2019-09-19T19:20:02","modified_gmt":"2019-09-19T19:20:02","slug":"orange-wines-are-now-a-thing-but-who-invented-the-term","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/uncategorized\/orange-wines-are-now-a-thing-but-who-invented-the-term","title":{"rendered":"Orange wines are now a thing, but who invented the term?"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The category of ‘orange wines’ – wines from white grapes that have been fermented on their skins – is now quite mainstream! In the last year, supermarkets in the UK have started listing them. And I even did a wine column in the Sunday Express<\/a> on orange wines (at the editor’s request) back in 2014.<\/p>\n

But where does the term come from? I don’t think many people realize this, but it was UK-based wine merchant David Harvey (Raeburn Wine) who coined it. In his own words, this is how the term for these wines entered the wine lexicon:<\/p>\n

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I actively discussed it from first principles (when I worked with Frank on Etna) in 2004, and started to use it thereafter. It was the year of making munjebel bianco #1, and we were drinking radikons, dario princic, gravner, vodopevic, castellada, prior-maceration era la biancara, massia vecchia etc.<\/div>\n
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It arose from the concern that there was no name or category, and the divergent wines would face rejection in both the on and off-trades. The rational was that there was no industry standard to label the wines by the same criteria as white\/ros\u00e9\/red, i.e. by the final colour of the wine, and not the component parts nor the technique. All the other possible names were already used in specific genres – vin jaune (yellow), rivesaltes ambr\u00e9 (amber) etc. – or were too pretentious, like golden.<\/div>\n
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And I did not take very seriously orange state, orange county, orange fruit. Georgia was discussed at some point: someone (who?) told me that ‘red wine’ meant just that, but that ‘wine’ tout-court meant macerated white grapes.<\/div>\n
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As sous l’nez my early offers to privates also also went to some UK press, with a section on orange wine from 2006.<\/div>\n
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I used it ‘naturally’ in tastings or conversation with Jancis, Jamie Goode, the Dressner team at Favorita, Rose Murray-Brown MW, Alice (at La Dive, in Veneto, in London, etc.) after which they all used it for the first time. There is no prior mention i have come across online or in print. I also used it with a bunch of winemakers.<\/div>\n
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The first article in print was Rose-Murray Brown in The Scotsman i think. Jancis was an early adopter online after she attended Contrada del’Etna tasting. Frank was in Belgium getting divorced and so I flew down to man his table. It has since been used in most all the major US broadsheets. L’Ortolan restaurant, whom I have helped out over the years, have run an orange wine section since about 2007.<\/div>\n
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So, we could now go back and say that trad tokaji is orange, and modern tokaji is white. Same for white port – foot tread (orange) or direct press (white but oxidative).<\/div>\n
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Of course, someone may have said it once before. I was just systematic about choosing the name and using it, with a certain group of people at a certain time, with no ambition other than enhancing communication, which seems to have worked.<\/div>\n
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However, I cannot now say that I agree with my former self entirely on the name!<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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