October 18, 2024 – New York — The third annual Orange Glou Wine Honest, America’s first and solely honest devoted completely to orange wines, is returning to New York on November 3rd, 2024, the place attendees can strive over 100 wines, meet winemakers and extra. Based by prime orange wine professional Doreen Winkler, founding father of Orange Glou, the primary and solely wine retailer and membership devoted to orange (aka skin-contact) wines, every Orange Glou Honest focuses on totally different winemaking areas, with this yr’s concentrate on Austria, Italy and Slovenia.
Hovering in reputation throughout the U.S., orange wines are made with white grapes however within the model typical of reds the place the skins are saved involved with the juice for a time frame after urgent. The method ends in a variety of textures, flavors and hues that span from gentle pink to darkish amber and every part in between, making orange wines a particularly versatile model of wine.
“Orange wines are extremely thrilling they usually deserve extra publicity. Whereas they’re rising in reputation with the opening of extra pure wine bars and the continued development of the Orange Glou retailer and membership, I hope this Honest will proceed to assist increase the profile of skin-contact wines and educate customers on how this numerous model of wine is made and will be loved,” says Orange Glou Honest founder Doreen Winkler. “The Orange Glou Honest will function the very best of the very best orange wines from Austria, Italy and Slovenia. From first-time orange wine drinkers to skilled sommeliers, there might be one thing for everybody to take pleasure in. With over 100 wines, my objective for the Honest is to broaden the understanding of orange wines by showcasing how layered they’re and highlighting pure winemaking methods.”
Wines featured on the Honest should observe Winkler’s standards: grapes are grown organically or biodynamically by impartial producers, hand-picked and fermented with indigenous yeasts; no components or new oak getting older; underneath 20 mg per liter or no sulfites are added; the wines are unfiltered and unfined.
Collaborating wineries embrace Austria’s Intestine Oggau, Franz Strohmeier, Christian Tschida, Georg Schmelzer, Weingut Maria & Sepp Muster, Fidesser Orbis, Weingut Heinrich, Ploder Rosenberg, Markus Altenburger, Koppitsch; Italy’s Franco Terpin, Alessandro Viola, Frank Cornelissen, Podere Pradarolo, Cantina Giardino, La Stoppa, Cantina Indigeno, Foradori, Marco di Bartoli; Slovenia’s Božidar Zorjan, Blažič, Keltis, Guerila, Kabaj, Atelier Kramar, JNK, Svetlik; plus wines from neighbors Croatia’s Tomac and Bosnia & Herzegovina’s Skrego from wine importers Scuola di Vino, Zev Rovine Choices, Vinum, Jenny & Francois, Bowler Wines and Louis Dressner Choices.
The Orange Glou Honest might be held in an area at 31 E. seventeenth Road in Union Sq. in Manhattan on November 3rd, 2024, in two classes. Tickets are $65 for the 11am-2:30pm tasting and $75 for 3pm-6pm, and embrace an Orange Glou Honest glass to maintain, in addition to water and occasional. The Orange Glou Wine Honest After Celebration ($75) might be held on the Orange Glou retailer (264 Broome Road) from 7pm-10pm with winemakers. (Attendees can apply $20 to any in-store buy made the night time of the after social gathering.)
The 2024 NYC Orange Glou Honest companions are Austrian Wine, S.Pellegrino, Onyx Espresso Lab and Ravenscroft Crystal.
About Orange Glou & Founder Doreen Winkler
Orange wines are hovering in reputation proper now, and no person is aware of this model of wine higher than Orange Glou founder, pure wine sommelier and orange wine professional Doreen Winkler. She launched Orange Glou, the world’s first orange wine subscription service in 2019, which delivers a sommelier-curated choice of hard-to-find pores and skin contact wines throughout the nation and has been named one in all USA At this time’s 10 Finest Wine Golf equipment since 2020, adopted by opening the Orange Glou wine retailer in NYC in 2021, and the Orange Glou Wine Honest in 2022, an annual celebration of orange wines that takes place in NYC in November. Now a nationwide occasion, Doreen introduced the Honest to Los Angeles for the primary time in April 2024. All wines are pure, natural or biodynamic and made by impartial winemakers. Month-to-month wine subscriptions: a curated choice of 3 or 6 new, uncommon and extremely allotted bottlings with vinification, tasting and meals pairing notes are 3 bottles $105/month; 6 bottles $195/month. The Orange Glou retailer is at 264 Broome Road in NYC; www.orangeglou.com; @OrangeGlou.
About Austrian Wine
The Austrian Wine Advertising Board (Austrian Wine), based mostly in Vienna, is a nationwide service physique for the Austrian wine trade. It was based in 1986 with the goal to strategically help, coordinate and keep high quality and gross sales. The corporate’s objective is to keep up the excessive shares of Austrian wine on the home market. On the identical time, it’s also aiming to develop wine exports, by putting the concentrate on worth creation.
About S.Pellegrino® Glowing Pure Mineral Water
S.Pellegrino® Glowing Pure Mineral Water is a premium glowing mineral water that flows naturally from a thermal spring in San Pellegrino Terme, close to Bergamo (Lombardia). S.Pellegrino has distinctive steadiness of effervescence and wealthy minerality which cleanse the palate and amplify refined flavors, making it the proper complement to wonderful meals and wines. Its clear, refreshing style has distinguished S.Pellegrino as a most popular glowing water by leaders of the worldwide culinary group.
About Onyx Espresso Lab
Onyx Espresso Lab is an Arkansas-based specialty espresso roaster identified for its uncompromising dedication to high quality, transparency, and innovation. Sourcing the best espresso beans from world wide, Onyx’s meticulous strategy to roasting and brewing has earned it a repute as one of many main names within the specialty espresso trade.
About Ravenscroft Crystal
Ravenscroft Crystal combines the qualities of old-world European craftsmanship with a contemporary understanding of how the form of a wine glass can considerably improve the tasting expertise. Ravenscroft glassware designs are developed out of the deepest respect for excellent wine and are hand-blown in almost 30 totally different types; every of that are the results of hundreds of years of glass making trial-and-error. Their final objective is to boost the bouquet and style of the wine or spirit for which it was made.
