Orange wines are also often mistaken for natural wines. The two bottles in the middle are ros é (on the left) while the next one (on the right) with an almost identical colour is in fact orange wine, made of Pinot gris (sivi pinot ), white grapes that contain some of the blue pigment in the skin, hence the pinkish colour after the prolonged maceration process. This way rosés are not able to transmit tannins from grapes to wine and remain relatively impoverished wines with weak bodies. Rosé is red wine, produced as white, and thus with shortened maceration process. Red wines are produced from red grapes with prolonged macerations, orange wines are made of white grapes, with prolonged macerations. There is another way to explain what orange wine is: it’s white wine produced as if it were red. Rebula orange by Marinko PintarZ UOU-consortium for the protection of abandoned vineyards This only happened in these lands or elsewhere as well? So in order to prevent any problems the authorities simply banned this kind of production and prescribed the use of chemicals and filtration. Cloudiness and an orange colour had always been indicators that the wine had gone bad.

After the war they became a necessity due to consumer protection policies: long macerations (soaking of whole grapes and sometimes stems in must) were not allowed anymore, filtering and the use of sulphur became a rule. Perhaps they were some, but there were no obligations to make them. The simplest one is to say that orange wine is wine made in traditional, pre-WWII way of making white wine.ĭoes that mean that there were no white wines before the WWII?

One can answer this question in many ways. Right at the entrance there’s a sign advertising orange wine. In a short interview David Šinigoj explained some basic rules of wine production that result in the various kinds of wines he decided to sell in his store: orange, natural, and biodynamic. Since 1990 we have constantly modernised our production processes for making sparkling wines by the traditional method, and for making still wines and balsamic vinegar.Štorija is another in a line of shops with character on Trubarjeva street in Ljubljana, with its owner, himself a sommelier and wine enthusiast, actually running the place for a reason that goes beyond the ordinary money-making model often seen in the branches chain stores along the tourist promenade of Ljubljana’s downtown. With the right technology, we have been able to make exceptional Bizeljsko wines We have been blessed with many vintages of excellent quality, and the new vineyards have matured, producing the structure that is such a feature of the local wines. In the years since 1990, a number of factors have favoured us. At that time, the general focus was somewhat different. In his relentless pursuit of supreme quality, Janez Istenič followed Robert Mondavi. He named it after his daughter Barbara, who was born in the same year.

Only two years later Janez Istenič made his first sparkling wine by the traditional method at Stara Vas na Bizeljskem.

Robert Mondavi founded his family winery in Oakville in 1966, and brought a global revolution in the production of wine, achieving supreme quality with his vision and decisiveness. Over the last four decades, the idyllic setting of Stara Vas na Bizeljskem has been home to the development of the first private sparkling wine production in Slovenia.

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