# Have you tried "orange wine" (it's sort of the inverse of rosé)

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**Created:** [October 11, 2009, 10:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-tried-orange-wine-its-sort-of-the-inverse-of-rose/513446 "2009-10-11T22:26:09Z")\
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**Author:** ![Brainiac](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/8797f3/32.png) [@Brainiac](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Brainiac)\
**Post date:** [October 11, 2009, 10:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-tried-orange-wine-its-sort-of-the-inverse-of-rose/513446/1 "2009-10-11T22:26:09Z")

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I just found out about this product. Apparently it’s not made in big batches, but as all novelties do, I’m sure it will become popular.  
It’s other name is the clumsy “skin-fermented white wine”.  
So, just as rosé is red fermented without the skins, orange wine is white fermented with them. Apparently some ancient cultures did this just naturally, and then lost the recipe.

> **[Orange Wines, La Cucina di Sardegna at La Ciccia - PT. 1](http://oldworldoldschool.blogspot.com/2009/07/orange-wines-la-cucina-di-sardegna-at.html)**
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> This is the first in a two part post about a recent orange wine tasting held last week. As I don't have many good pictures of the evening a...

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**Post date:** [October 12, 2009, 10:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-tried-orange-wine-its-sort-of-the-inverse-of-rose/513446/2 "2009-10-12T22:56:37Z")

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I’ve done so once at home (wine hobbyist). The color is very neat (an orangish-honey) and it had a heavier body. I don’t know if/how the taste really differed though, since my grapes taste all over the map from season to season.

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**Author:** ![Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e47c2d/32.png) [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biffy_the_Elephant_Shrew)\
**Post date:** [October 12, 2009, 11:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-tried-orange-wine-its-sort-of-the-inverse-of-rose/513446/3 "2009-10-12T23:03:11Z")

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Just read about this yesterday. I wouldn’t be able to resist expecting it to taste like oranges!

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**Post date:** [October 13, 2009, 1:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-tried-orange-wine-its-sort-of-the-inverse-of-rose/513446/4 "2009-10-13T13:29:52Z")

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I’ve seen signs offering “Orange Wine” for sale at country stores in Florida – but I always assumed it was, you know, fermented orange juice.