Sauvignon Blanc

Bergerac, South-West

Medium bodied

A generous & opulent ‘orange' wine, macerated on the skins for 6 days before fermentation in old barrels and ageing in terracotta amphora. The 2019 has a fresher, pithy acidity: a twist of grapefruit, apricot picked early, and just a hint of smoke. Held together with a tightrope-line of acidity, and wonderful savoury minerality. A special wine from Vincent at Chateau Barouillet.

Muscat, Grenache Gris

Corbieres, Languedoc

Pithy, mineral and aromatic, would pair great with south-east Asian dishes, a more nimble orange wine.

From ex-dancer and ex-pat Australian Paul Old’s Project 108. Paul works with old, near-abandoned vines, both near the ocean in Corbieres Maritimes, and high in the hills of Hautes-Corbieres.

Muscat, Pinot Gris, Gewurtzraminer

Dambach-la-Ville, Alsace

Light Bodied

Pithy, zippy, saline and aromatic. Soft stone fruit and garden herbs, perfect skin-contact.
Infusion 2021, is as it says on the tin: an infusion of de-stemmed Muscat, Pinot Gris and Gewürztraminer, suspended in large ‘tea-bags’ in a tank of direct-pressed Auxerrois juice. A macerated, orange wine made in a style that enables the grower to have much more granular control over the extraction.

The famous 'tea bag' method continues to catch on!

Silvaner

Franconia, Germany

Medium bodied

The second vintage from this vineyard. Loads of sun, hard to farm. About 50% of the grapes were fermented on the skins for ten days the rest was pressed after a night of skin-contact. Aging in 60-year old oak the wines came together in spring 2018 and remained in a tank until bottling in July 2018.

Silvaner

Medium Bodied

The Voelkers signature wine, powerful and elegant, just like Michael.

The grapes for this cuvée grow on a fairly steep plot close to the winery on young shell-limestone. The top and the bottom of the vineyard are a bit fatter, the middle section is dry and rocky. Vines are about 30 years old and have been farmed organically for almost 20 years.

Silvaner

Iphofen, Franconia

Medium Bodied

A special one. Delicately spiced, a little smoky, with comice pear, herbal accents of fennel and sage, continues to develop once open. Complexity sings loudest here, though there’s a wild harmony in the mix. Despite the 9 months of skin-contact, this one still hums with the electric acidity present in all of Andi’s wines.

A true skin-contact beauty from Franconia in Germany.
A 40-something year old Silvaner vineyard, growing on the steepest top of the hill on meager Keuper soil. Loads of sun, hard to farm.
About 2/3 of the grapes were fermented on the skins for a week the rest was pressed after two nights of skin-contact. Aging in 60-year old oak, the wines came together in summer 2019 and remained in tank until bottling in March 2020

Blauer Silvaner (100%)

Kitzingen, Germany

Medium Bodied

Pithy, saline, zesty and grippy, this is one we’ve loved this summer. The Blue-skinned variety of Silvaner yields a pinkish hue when macerated on the skins like this one, so you can file this under “vibrant, zippy skin-contact wine’ or ‘complex, grapefruit and pepper rosé’.
Both are very good categories to find oneself in.