Wine Topics – Orange wines and Dario Princic NV Premium Italian Orange Wine Review

The video is in response to one of my subscribers, lluripsuir, who I promised I would do a video on orange wines.

Orange wines are also known as Amber Wines or Skin Contact Wines. The concept is that these wines are fermented using white wine grapes (with skins) to make wine. They have been made in Georgia since 6000 BC and also has a long history in Friuli-Venezia Giulia region in Italy and in Slovenia.

Dario Princic started his winery in 1993. Originally, he sold his grapes to other wineries but began experimenting with skin contact wines 1999. The Prinčič winery is located in the village of Oslavia, in the Fruili Venezia Giulia region, a few steps from the border with Slovenia. The winery has about 10 hectares of vineyards and the average age of the vines is 60 years. The winery is organic and no yeasts or sulfur are added in the fermentation process. The wine is unfiltered so may show a bit of sediment.

The wine is a non vintage wine made with a combination of Chardonnay, Sauvignon Blanc, Pinot Grigio grapes. It is a skin contact wine but it is actually labelled a Bianco, as the winery does not want to get caught up as labelled as an orange wine.

Oops the great somm at Nightingale…his name is Jacob, not Joshua!