At least I’ve never heard of any. Oranges would seem to have the characteristics needed for the task: easily juiced, lots of natural sugar, great flavor. So, why no wine?
I don’t know about wine per se, but there are a couple of liquors made with oranges and a few other ingrediants. The two that came to mind immediately were Mosco from Mexico and Curacao from the island of the same name. While neither of these is what you would figure orange liquor would taste like, oranges are a large part of the ingrediants.
I bought a bottle of wine made from oranges when I was on spring break in 1971. It was definitely a real wine, not some sort of Boone’s Farm thing. But it tasted absolutely awful; made Boone’s Farm seem good by comparison. I doubt they put much effort into it.
A good article on the topic of fruit wines:
Think of it this way – wine is “native” to the fermented grape. Other fruits need help to turn into what grapes turn into more or less naturally. So even though oranges have the easily juiced and have significant sugar content, there is the problem of acidity to contend with.
It might have just plain gone bad. I’m betting orange wine has a very short shelf life … especially with 1971 bottling technology.
Did you buy it from a store, or from someone selling it homemade from the back of a truck or something?
A guy I used to work with made orange wine every year for I think Memorial day. It was very good, and really snuck up you. Got pretty happy on that wine.
I bought it at a permanent stand in FL. I don’t remember if it was made on site or not. It could have gone bad, but I wasn’t about to try another bottle to find out. Mateus seemed like a better bet.
My Dad makes excellent fruit wines, including an orange wine that is to die for. So delicious orange wine is possible to make. Comercialy I know of no orange wine, but there is Lillet (sp?) that is a medium sweet grape wine from France flavoured with orange, it makes a very nice summer drink served on the rocks and is available in Safeways and Bev and More in california and I expect many other places.
So is orange Mad Dog (MD 20/20) a real orange wine, or just an orange-flavored grape wine?
Because whenever they try, they keep falling off.
Yo. Tasty and local – for me, anyway. Works really great as a chicken marinade, BTW.
Hello, Bippy! Would your dad be willing to share his method? Mine went DISGUSTINGLY wrong (I followed Mrs. Tritton’s instructions.)
Cisco, the fine bum wine, is a blend of Orange and Grape wines.
A visit to the back of the greengrocer’s is a clue; overripe grapes smell rich and winey; overripe apples smell mellow and cidery; overripe oranges smell disgusting, like compost.
Eerie. Y’know I’ve been Googling this question to death, and the only ingredient that is forthcoming is: alcohol. 
Neither. It is the blood of sacrificed virgins fermented by Satan himself.
Check out this hilarious & accurate article regarding ‘bum wines’…
Go to a supermarket in a strict Muslim country with a Western expat population and look around. Chances are, you will find oranges, yeast, sugar, big plastic fluid containers and maybe even decanter-length bits of hose - possibly in very convenient proximity on the same aisle.
Not that I know anything about alcoholic beverages whatsoever, but aren’t there Orange Liquers?
Well, there’s Pruno:
You can pick up wine made from oranges at many of those cheesy tourist places off of I-95 in Florida. I suspect the reason it’s never became popular is because of the many reasons given in this thread. Bordelond’s post sums it up pretty good.