orange wine

English

Etymology

From the color, coined as a marketing term.

Noun

orange wine (countable and uncountable, plural orange wines)

1. A type of wine made from white wine grapes where the grape skins are not removed.

   Synonym: amber wine

   Coordinate terms: red wine, white wine

   • 2015, Lettie Teague, Wine in Words: Some Notes for Better Drinking‎^[1], Rizzoli Publications, →ISBN:

     Orange wines are unlike a white and unlike a red, although they are probably more like a red than a white. They're tannic and sometimes a little bitter depending on how long the skins have contact with the juice.

Further reading

• orange wine on Wikipedia.Wikipedia