Masbustelo
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Is anyone experimenting with these techniques? I would like to read what has been your experience. I see some wineries are fermenting on the skins etc. for as long as six months.
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I have never made orange wines, per se. But I have fermented some second wines with white grape skins. And I've tasted orange wines. In Georgia, where it is said grape wines were born, they have at least a 6000 year old tradition of placing their grapes in a large kveri underground and leaving them for a year or more to ferment and clarify never removing the skins and sediments. Some of the wineries are still doing it this traditional way. They are very interesting wines. You will get more tannins and bitterness, so if that's not your thing, I would not bother.
Masbustelo
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Personally I don't like white wines, but the Orange Wine process sounds interesting.
