Orange Wine Grape|Xarel-lo | Wayward Wines

Grape – Xarel-lo

‘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. 

Vinyes Singulars
Salinar 2023

Stunning expression of old-vine Xarel-lo, here from the Salinar vineyard planted in 1959. Tthe wine was aged in chestnut barrel and for 6 months and not topped up, allowing a gentle oxidative character to form, taking this in the direction of an Amontillado sherry - golden, honeyed with salty almond and citrus peels. Find out more.

  • Region Alt Penedès, Catalonia, Spain
  • Grapes Xarel-lo
  • Vineyard Fermented with native yeasts, unfiltered & unfined, no additional sulphites
  • Cellar Organic
£41

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