Monje - Orange Wine

A 7-day Skin-Contact Orange wine with a little disco for your palate. Crafted to get everyone grooving, and will always make you the talk of the party. Serve chilled.

750ml, 11.3% Alc. by Vol.

Tasting Notes

Exotic mandarin orange, amber peach, bright and juicy, with a light hazlenut finish

Region and Grape Varietals

95% Organic Gewurztraminer from Paso Robles | 5% Dry Farmed Zinfandel from Mendocino County

Nutritional Data

104 calories | 4.6g carbs | 0g proteins | 0g fats | 0g sugar
average analysis per 5 fl oz

Ingredients: Organic Grapes, Sulphur (35ppm add)

Organic farming

Certified organic grapes

Vegan

No animal products, ever

Low Sulfites

Minimal Sulfites

Fermented Dry

Fermented to 0g total sugars

Limited Production

Made by family & friends

Low sulfites

Vegan

Dry, 0g Sugar

Hand harvested in California

We hand-picked Organic Gewürztraminer in Paso Robles and scooted them up to Healdsburg.

The whole berries were gently added to tank for a semi-carbonic fermentation for 7 days before being danced on (pressed). Primary fermentation was native with an experimental 7% Zinfandel coferment.

The skin-contact orange wine was aged sur lie before being racked off the thick lees to tank and filtered on a full moon's day. All of our friends came together and we waxed each orange wine bottle by hand.

Unfined, Native Fermentation and Semi-carbonic. 35ppm of sulfur was added to the wine. A limited production wine.

What is natural wine?

Also known as raw wine, or minimal intervention wine - we're all about letting our grapes sing and making wines that are living reflections of the land.

1. Farming

Our natural wines begin with sustainable farming: grapes grown using organic or biodynamic farming methodologies.

2. Spontaneous

We let the grapes undergo spontaneous fermentation by their own native and wild yeast as opposed to using lab-grown.

3. Winery

We take a minimal intervention approach to winemaking. Avoiding additives like animal products, synthetics, flavorings, or manipulation like pasteurization. Limited sulfur to protect the wines through bottling is the only addition.