WTN: Fora, I ador-i you!

[Jenise]

2018 Foradori Fontanasanta Manzoni Bianco Vigneti delle Dolomiti IGT Manzoni Bianco

This is that unusual thing--a wine that tastes like nothing I've had before. Beguiling nose of flowers and minerals provide an introduction to unfamiliar mid-palate fruit that's both exotic and highly appealing without being warm or tropical, finish is clean and refreshing. Will repurchase.

Nice. That is her skin-contact 'orange' wine? I haven't kept up but have pretty much liked every wine I've had from her.

Didn't know this grape either, but the interwebs say it is a cross between riesling and pinot blanc?

[David M. Bueker]

It is indeed a crossing, and a good one. Not quite as good as Scheurebe though.

[Jenise]

Not orange as I understand 'orange'. No obvious extract or sign of anything but white grapes.

[David M. Bueker]

Not orange. No sign of anything but white grapes.

No extended skin contact?

[Jenise]

None detectable in color or flavor. Wine was a very normal pale straw color.

Yup...Elisabetta ferments this in Jose Padilla (the Spanish master) Tinijas w/ minimal skin-contact. None of the recent ones I've had showed anything in the way of phenolic character I could pick up.
Tom

... w/ minimal skin-contact...

3 or 4 days according to the web.

[Jenise]

I learned yesterday, because I saw a bottle of her orange Pinot Grigio, that the wax color indicates the contents. That PG had orange wax, where this Mazzoni had yellow.