Harvest
Grapes picked by hand early october in small boxes
Winemaking
Taronja is an ‘orange’ wine, made by fermenting grapes usually destined for white wine, with their skins and stalks, the same way we would make a red wine. The wine picks up an amber/coppery colour from the skins (Grenache Gris grapes are slightly pink), as well as fresh, peppery tannins.
Aging
As for red wines, we made 4 barrel fermentations,
two of them 'whole bunch', one carbonic
maceration, and the last with de-stemmed grapes. We fermented in open top 500L barrels, and left the skins and stalks macerating in the wine for 2 weeks after the fermentation finished. We protected the wine from oxidation with dry ice. The wine was aged in neutral barriques during 8 months, with no fining and a light filtration.
