The second iteration of our Shouting at Weather Orange wine. The Shouting at Weather range is made from Herefordshire grapes that we have sourced from local vineyards. The grapes for our '24 orange were from a small unsprayed vineyard in Little Dewchurch. 2024 was a really difficult growing season. Cool temperatures and persistant rain made for high disease pressure and lower levels of ripeness. We were unable to pick some of our later varieties an we didn't feel the flavours were where we wanted. However, in this challenging year the Solaris vines really stood out. This disease resistant hybrid let us pick a healthy ripen crop in late September. On arrival at the winery the 80% of the grapes were crushed and destemmed with 20% kept as whole bunches. Fermented in steel tank before pressing after 14 days with twice daily cap punching. The partly fermented wine was then racked into a single old barrel to finish fermentation. In Spring 2025 the wine was racked from barrel into stainless steel tanks ready for bottling. After being allowed to settle for a further two weeks the wine was bottled by gravity under natural corks. The resulting wine has a savoury edge with flavours of dried apricot, orange peel and a liitle salinity on the finish. Serve slightly chilled. 9.5% Alcohol 6.5g/l TA unfined, unfiltered Wild fermentation No added sulphites
