orange wine

English

Etymology

From the color, coined as a marketing term.

Noun

orange wine (countable and uncountable, plural orange wines)

  1. A type of wine made from white wine grapes where the grape skins are not removed.
    Synonym: amber wine
    Coordinate terms: red wine, white wine
    • 2015, Lettie Teague, Wine in Words: Some Notes for Better Drinking‎, Rizzoli Publications, →ISBN:
      Orange wines are unlike a white and unlike a red, although they are probably more like a red than a white. They're tannic and sometimes a little bitter depending on how long the skins have contact with the juice.

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