Orange Wine Country|Italy | Wayward Wines

Country – Italy

‘What is orange natural wine?’ - the question we are asked most frequently on an average day at Wayward. Named for its colour, natural orange wine is made using white grapes, but vinified as one would a red. That means the skins stay on through the process, often the stalks and stems too, bleeding pigment into the wine and producing all manner of deep golden, amber, ochre hues in the glass.

This creates tannic structure too - which makes them more complex than your everyday white wine and coupled with their lifted aromatics you are in sensory overload territory. 

Antonio Gismondi
Cerreto 2023

A delicate, weightless wine that seems to evaporate on the palate. The extraction is gentle and restrained, leaving the wine a pale gold with lifted aromas of floral blossom and white grapefruit pith, with just a hint of smokiness creeping through from the basalt bedrock. Find out more.

  • Region Cerreto Sannita, Campania, Italy
  • Grapes Malvasia di Candia
  • Vineyard Biodynamic
  • Cellar Fermented with native yeasts, unfiltered & unfined, no additional sulphites
£23.50

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Maremosso
Bianco Catarratto 2022

A great introduction to the world of orange wine here with Sicilian skin-contact Catarratto. Expect a rich, pithy fruit character with ripe melon, grapefruit, sage and white flowers sitting beside saline freshness with ease. Totally moreish. Find out more.

  • Region Alcamo, Sicily, Italy
  • Grapes Catarratto
  • Vineyard Organic
  • Cellar Fermented with native yeasts, unfiltered & unfined, minimal additional sulphites
£17.25

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Antonio Gismondi
Pietre 2023

A briny, sharp wine of refreshment that bursts with salty lemon citrus and a little peachy flesh. The vines in this particular parcel reach down to a layer of volcanic bedrock which binds the abundance of tropical fruit with an unmistakable aroma of smoke and gives tension to the acidity. Find out more.

  • Region Cerreto Sannita, Campania, Italy
  • Grapes Malvasia di Candia & Falanghina
  • Vineyard Biodynamic
  • Cellar Fermented with native yeasts, unfiltered & unfined, no additional sulphites
£23.50

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Antonio Gismondi
Foresta 2023

Deploying some grapes from a different site at lower altitude where the obscure pink-skinned Trebbiano Rosa varietal is planted over soils of heavy clay, this is the more robust and structured of Antonio's wines, whilst still retaining his trademark purity and freshness. Find out more.

  • Region Cerreto Sannita, Campania, Italy
  • Grapes Trebbiano, Trebbiano Rosa & Malvasia di Candia
  • Vineyard Biodynamic
  • Cellar Fermented with native yeasts, unfiltered & unfined, no additional sulphites
£23.50

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Le Coste
Bianco 2021

One of the best vintages of Bianco we've tried in some time! Always a real nectar, this wine is a great introduction to the many ways Le Coste have with their macerated whites. A glowing amber in the glass, with heady aromatics and neat tannins. Mouth-watering stuff that will have you reaching for another glass. Find out more.

  • Region Gradoli, Lazio, Italy
  • Grapes Procanico, Malvasia, Roscetto, Pedino, Vermentino, Romanesco & Ansonica
  • Vineyard Biodynamic
  • Cellar Fermented with native yeasts, unfiltered & unfined, no additional sulphites
£37

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Valdibella
Ninfa 2023

A proper orange wine - bold with colour, structure, and an incredible aromatic profile of ginger and apricots. Saline, grippy and spicy. Find out more.

  • Region Camporeale, Sicily, Italy
  • Grapes Catarratto
  • Vineyard Organic
  • Cellar Fermented with native yeasts, unfiltered & unfined, minimal added sulphites
£20.75

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Fattoria Di Vaira Vincenzo
Bianco 2022

An entry-level selection that immediately claims the plaudit of best-priced orange wine in the house. Find out more.

  • Region Campobasso, Molise, Italy
  • Grapes Falanghina
  • Vineyard Biodynamic
  • Cellar Fermented with native yeasts, unfiltered & unfined, minimal additional sulphites
£15.50

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Bbirbiciù
Testa di Ghiaca 2021

100% Zibibbo from 60 year-old bush vines fermented on the skins in amphora buried in the sandy volcanic soils of the vineyard. The concentration of the wine is impressive, glowing a sandy gold in the glass and generously textured. heady floral notes, ripe tropical fruits and exotic spices. Find out more.

  • Region Pantelleria, Sicily, Italy
  • Grapes Zibibbo
  • Vineyard Biodynamic
  • Cellar Fermented with native yeasts, unfiltered & unfined, no additional sulphites
£49.50

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Malauva
Tierra! 2021

A lean, thirst-quenching wine coming from 40-year-old vines grown on volcanic soils in the municipality of Orvieto, a few kilometres from Lazio and Tuscany. Vibrant and refreshing, Tierra packs layers of salt, citrus and fleshy white fruit with a nutty, brioche finish. Find out more.

  • Region Umbria, Italy
  • Grapes Procanico, Druppeggio, Verdello & Malvasia
  • Vineyard Organic
  • Cellar Fermented with native yeasts, unfiltered & unfined, no additional sulphites
£26.25

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La Stoppa
Ageno 2020

Unreal levels of depth, concentration and complexity are to be found in this show-stopping, deeply amber wine. So many things to pick out aromatically it's hard to know where to start. Find out more.

  • Region Emilia-Romagna, Italy
  • Grapes Malvasia, Ortrugo, Trebbiano
  • Vineyard Organic
  • Cellar Fermented with native yeasts, unfiltered & unfined, minimal additional sulphites
£44

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Fabio Ferracane
Macerato 2022

Highly aromatic, burnished amber maceration of Catarrato. Sea-salted apricot with a heady waft of wild herbs and flowers float out of the glass preceding grippy, mouth-coating tannins and a resinous pine cone quality, inflected with medicinal eucalyptus. Exactly the style of orange wine that we love! Find out more.

  • Region Marsala, Sicily, Italy
  • Grapes Catarratto
  • Vineyard Organic
  • Cellar Fermented with native yeasts, unfiltered & unfined, no additional sulphites
£35.50

Fabio Ferracane
Aggiara 2021

Next-level sister wine to Fabio's 'Macerato' cuvée with a more refined process. Here, an extended time in amphora has imprinted a whole new textural identity on that same herbal, pithy and deep maceration of Catarratto. There is the familiar eucalyptus and salt-tinged apricot stone fruit, but here the tannins feel filed-down and beautifully fine-grained from the contact with the clay vessel. Find out more.

  • Region Marsala, Sicily, Italy
  • Grapes Catarratto
  • Vineyard Organic
  • Cellar Fermented with native yeasts, unfiltered & unfined, no additional sulphites
£38.50

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Le Coste
Bianco de Coccio 2020

A deep, powerful amber wine that is all baked citrus, earth and spice. Raised entirely in terracotta amphorae, this is a wine of incredible depth and texture, with fine tannins framing ripe stone fruits, smoke and spice. Find out more.

  • Region Gradoli, Lazio, Italy
  • Grapes Procanico, Malvasia & Moscato
  • Vineyard Biodynamic
  • Cellar Fermented with native yeasts, unfiltered & unfined, no additional sulphites
£39.50

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Fabio Ferracane
Muffato Oxidative 2018

A callback to the old school Marsala of days gone by and a remarkable, completely natural phenomenon. Bone dry, the wine is a heady mix of all the complex flavours and textures that oxidation and flor-contact can bring. Fruits give way to woody hazelnut, toasted almond, turmeric and garam masala spice with crystals of salt, plus a little sweet vanilla from the barrel. Find out more.

  • Region Marsala, Sicily, Italy
  • Grapes Catarratto
  • Vineyard Organic
  • Cellar Fermented with native yeasts, unfiltered & unfined, no additional sulphites
£38

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Antonio Gismondi
Cerreto 2023 MAGNUM

A delicate, weightless wine that seems to evaporate on the palate. The extraction is gentle and restrained, leaving the wine a pale gold with lifted aromas of floral blossom and white grapefruit pith, with just a hint of smokiness creeping through from the basalt bedrock. Find out more.

  • Region Cerreto Sannita, Campania, Italy
  • Grapes Malvasia di Candia
  • Vineyard Biodynamic
  • Cellar Fermented with native yeasts, unfiltered & unfined, no additional sulphites
£49.50

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Cà de Noci
Notte di Luna 2021

Notte is everything we love about Italian skin-contact wines; the Malvasia & Moscato here providing an almost never-ending list of complex aromatics: rose blossom, lime pith, ginger, tinned peaches, clementine zest and more. Find out more.

  • Region Quattro Castella, Emilia-Romagna, Italy
  • Grapes Spergola, Malvasia & Moscato
  • Vineyard Organic
  • Cellar Fermented with native yeasts, unfiltered & unfined, no additional sulphites
£38.50

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Valdibella
Sulle Bucce 2023

Pouring a deep straw-yellow in the glass, tropical fruit notes immediately jump out alongside wild flowers, Mediterranean herbs and a good salty-citrus tang. Find out more.

  • Region Camporeale, Sicily, Italy
  • Grapes Grillo
  • Vineyard Organic
  • Cellar Fermented with native yeasts, unfiltered & unfined, no added sulphites
£22

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Ajola
Bianco #2 2022

A spritely skin-contact number from Jacopo - heady with wildflowers, minerals, yellow plums and citrus peel leading to fine tannins and a clean salty finish. Find out more.

  • Region Orvieto, Umbria, Italy
  • Grapes Procanico, Malvasia Toscana, Verdello & Drupeggio
  • Vineyard Organic
  • Cellar Fermented with native yeasts, unfiltered & unfined, no additional sulphites
£29.25

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Antonio Gismondi
Pietre 2023 MAGNUM

A briny, sharp wine of refreshment that bursts with salty lemon citrus and a little peachy flesh. Interestingly, the vines in this particular parcel reach down to a layer of volcanic bedrock which imparts an unmistakable aroma of smoke and some welcome tension to the acidity. Find out more.

  • Region Cerreto Sannita, Campania, Italy
  • Grapes Malvasia di Candia & Falanghina
  • Vineyard Biodynamic
  • Cellar Fermented with native yeasts, unfiltered & unfined, no additional sulphites
£49.50

Quantity

Antonio Gismondi
Foresta 2023 MAGNUM

Deploying some grapes from a different site at lower altitude where the obscure pink-skinned Trebbiano Rosa varietal is planted over soils of heavy clay, this is the more robust and structured of Antonio's wines, whilst still retaining his trademark purity and freshness. Find out more.

  • Region Cerreto Sannita, Campania, Italy
  • Grapes Trebbiano, Trebbiano Rosa & Malvasia di Candia
  • Vineyard Biodynamic
  • Cellar Fermented with native yeasts, unfiltered & unfined, no additional sulphites
£49.50

Quantity