Description
Cloudy pale orange in color, this unique, old-world wine has an intense nose of grapefruit, apricot, peach skin, and moss. This is dry with medium acidity and body, with well integrated tannins. Nice long lasting finish with lingering fermented lemon, orange peel, and apricot. This is a beautiful example of an orange wine. This 100% Malvasia orange wine is perfect to accompany fish, white meats, and blue cheeses such as gorgonzola. It is also excellent as an aperitif.
Malvasia is an ancient family of grapes that includes a diverse collection of noble varieties. Similar to Semillons and Sauvignon Blancs, you'll find many of the same tropical fruit notes, but with one noticeable difference: Malvasia's have a very distinctive perfumed scent to them. In Le Vigne di Zamò Orange, Malvasia creates a beautiful example of an orange wine. Zamò Orange is hand-harvested the 3rd week of September, organiclly farmed, with no additional sulfites or filtration. This special wine is aged in amphorae for 6 months, and is 100% natural and sustainable.
Le Vigne di Zamò is a family owned winery located in Manzano, one of the most renewed winegrowing areas in Friuli Venezia Giulia. Brothers Pierluigi and Silvano Zamò inherited the estate from their father Tullio, and together with Brigitte, SIlvano’s wife, have made Le Vigne di Zamò one of the greatest names of the area, and the first winery from Friuli to win the “Tre Bicchieri del Gambero Rosso” award for a red wine, Ronco dei Roseti, in 1988. Along with the traditional white varieties that dominate the hills of Friuli Colli Orientali — such as Ribolla Gialla, Sauvignon and Pinot Grigio — Le Vigne di Zamò is one of the few wineries of this area with 40% of the production focused on red indigenous varieties, some of them very rare, such as Refosco dal Peduncolo Rosso and Schioppettino.
