They share colour, but not history or soul. The Vino de Naranja from Condado de Huelva (a PDO) and orange wine could not be more different, even if grammar lumps them together.
The first is pure southern Spain: white wine from Condado—mainly made from Zalema grapes—that is macerated with bitter orange peels and then aged in wood. The result is a sweet, aromatic wine with notes of candied citrus and spices. A sip that tastes like sun, calm, and Andalusian tradition.
The second, orange wine, has nothing to do with fruit. It is a wine made from white grapes fermented with their skins, an ancient Caucasian technique revived by natural wine enthusiasts. It is a white wine made using red winemaking methods: dry, tannic, golden, and rebellious—a wine that doesn’t aim to please everyone, but to surprise.
So don’t be fooled by the colour: one contains oranges, the other contains skins… but of grapes.
Two different worlds, united only by a word and a good dose of confusion.
