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The Vice 2024 Orange of Gewurztraminer, 100% vegan – Low Sulfites
The Vice · Orange of Gewürztraminer · Los Carneros, Napa Valley · 2024
Malek Amrani’s The Vice is a Bay Area natural wine project built around a radical idea: take one of the world’s most aromatic white grapes — Gewürztraminer, the “Spice Traminer” that has thrived in cool climates since 16th-century Germany — and vinify it like a red wine. The result is an orange wine of rare expressiveness: 100% unfiltered Gewürztraminer from Los Carneros, Napa Valley, fermented with wild yeast and extended skin contact that extracts the grape’s natural color, tannins, and flavor compounds in a way that no conventional white wine vinification can replicate. 100% vegan. Low sulfites (Free SO₂: 33mg/L). Aged 7 months on lees in stainless steel. At $24.99, this is one of the most distinctive and compelling orange wines made in California.
A vivid, expressive bouquet leaps from the glass: lychee, rose petals, juicy white peach, and a whisper of exotic cardamom. On the palate: silky and seamless, with layered flavors of ripe melon, tangy blood orange, and warm spice. A pitch-perfect balance of sweetness and acidity — residual sugar just 2.19g/100ml — keeps it fresh and vibrant through a long, spiced finish. Serve slightly cool. Drink now through 2027.
- Producer: The Vice (Malek Amrani)
- Vintage: 2024
- Appellation: Los Carneros, Napa Valley, California
- Varietal: 100% Gewürztraminer (unfiltered)
- Style: Orange wine (skin-contact)
- Vinification: Wild yeast fermentation · Temperature controlled · Extended skin maceration · 7 months on lees in stainless steel
- ABV: 11% · RS: 2.19g/100ml · Free SO₂: 33mg/L
- Certifications: 100% Vegan · Low Sulfites
- Size: 750ml
- Tasting Notes: Lychee, rose petals, white peach, cardamom, ripe melon, blood orange, warm spice, long spiced finish
- Cellar Potential: Drink now through 2027
- Food Pairings: Spiced Moroccan chicken, Thai curry, aged gouda, charcuterie, roasted root vegetables
Wild yeast, skin contact, and Los Carneros Gewürztraminer — California orange wine at its most expressive.
Channing Daughters Winery Research Bianco 2019 Orange 750ml
Winemaker Notes
Our 2019 Research Bianco is a skin-fermented white wine blend in which the proportions and varieties change with each vintage. A good friend supplied the grapes from a "research" vineyard on the East End. All the grapes were grown together (a field blend), hand-picked, de-stemmed, crushed by foot and punched down by hand.
