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Ceci n'est pas un Orange
¥4,598 - ¥23,725
- Producer: Dassemus
- Winemaker: Ron Langeveld
- Place of Origin: Chaam,The Netherlands
- Style&Type: Dry Orange wine
- Grape varieties: 50% Souvignier Gris, 35% Solaris, 15% Muscaris
- Body: Medium
- ABV: 11%
- Vintage: 2020
- Drinking window: 2021-2027
- Closure Type: Screwcap
- Total production: 5,000 bottles
Vineyard Information
– Location: Brabant, Chaam
– Soil: Sandy with some Clay
– Altitude: just above sea level
– Year the vines were planted: 2004
– Agricultural method: Organic certified, in conversion to biodynamic (Demeter from September 2021). Zero spraying in the vineyard, not even cupper or sulphur.
Winemaking process
– Harvest date: beginning to mid-october
– Harvested by hand in boxes of 15kg
– Destemmed and crushed
– Fermentation vessel: stainless steel
– Type of Yeasts used: wild
– Maceration Time: 25 days maceration on the skin (3 Punch Downs/day)
– Fermentation temperature: ambient
– Malolactic fermentation: yes
– Maturation Vessel: 45 % Stainless steel, 30 % ceramic amphora 25% old barriques
– Maturation period: 6 months
– No filtration, no fining
Reviews
Simon Woolf: "the first genuine Orange Dutch Wine"
Yiannis Karakasis MW: "Delicious" (2017 vintage)