The Orange Wine Festival has established itself as a major event in the wine world, promoting macerated white wines, also known as “orange wines.” Made from white grapes using a winemaking technique similar to that of red wines, these wines have a deep golden color and a complex flavor profile, often enriched with herbal and fruity notes. Although the term “orange wines” is relatively new, many of them have ancient winemaking traditions that embrace authenticity and sustainability in an increasingly industrial world. In Georgia, for example, winemaking in clay amphorae buried in the ground is...

The greyness of yesterday in Isola was broken by the vivacity of orange, the color that distinguishes the Orange Wine Festival. The backdrop to the traditional international exhibition of the so-called orange wines, that is, white wines with long maceration, was Piazza Manzioli and the palace of the same name and the church of Santa Maria d'Alieto opposite. What has become one of the most important wine showcases at a national level, which has also quickly established itself abroad, this year involved about seventy winemakers from Slovenia, Croatia, Italy, Austria, the Czech Republic, Serbia, Greece and Georgia, of which the public...