Fitapreta - Branco A Laranja Mecanica NV

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This is an orange wine made with a distinctly Maçanita twist: instead of relying on passive skin contact, António partially presses the grapes, allowing the remaining 10-15% of juice to rest inside the skins for one week. The wine is made exclusively from the second pressing of these grapes—and still maintains vinous elegance despite this rustic and atypical technique.

A field blend of Arinto, Roupeiro, Verdelho, Antão Vaz, Alicante Branco, Trincadeira-das-Pratas, and Fernão Pires from sustainably farmed vines ranging from 25 to 50 years in age.

A field blend of seven local Portuguese white varieties, this “mechanical orange” is António Maçanita’s riff on a skin-contact white. He presses the grapes, leaving them with about 15 percent of the juice, then lets those grapes rest for a week before pressing them again—using only the juice from the second pressing for this wine. It ferments with ambient yeasts in stainless steel, without the addition of sulfur until fermentation is complete. Open a bottle and you’ll find that dried apricot and blond caramel are the calmer side of this wild, microbial party in a glass: tannic and volatile and a bit crazy-extreme, a radical, deeply orange wine with kombucha notes and a lot of flavor dimension. Pour it with mushroom-and-kimchi toast, or go for something meaty.

 

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Producer	Fitapreta
Country	Portugal
Region	Alentejo
Varietal	Proprietary Blend
Sku	19232
Size	750ml