Ram Cellars Orange Fraîche 2024

Available from Petite when we last checked. Sold from the shop’s own store; the price there is the one that counts.

Our 2023 Orange Fraîche is a Nouveau-style orange wine using skin-contact fermented Riesling from Washington’s Columbia Valley. Orange-style wines are produced by fermenting white wine grapes in contact with the grape skins (and, in our case, the whole clusters including the stems as well). Nouveau-style wines are fresh, fruit-forward young wines that are released in the same year they are harvested. Classically, lighter bodied red wines like Pinot Noir and Gamay Noir have been the stars of the