Artizani, Orange Affair - 2022

8000 years. Just imagine, 8000 years ago people at the territory of the the modern country Georgia made the wines. And they still do it. Very often using the same old techniques. Artizani winery is in that number. Artizani was founded by three wine aficionados obsessed with natural wines from Georgian indigenous grape varieties. Salome, Irakli, and David took ‘Artizani’- from French- to describe a craftsman who works with his hands, and the three of them have worked eight years together to craft the perfect Georgian wine. Their Orange Affair is a dry skin contact wine blend of 70% Rkatsiteli and 30% Mtsvane. Initial sweet aroma of yellow cherry and dried flowers bloom into the notes of ripe melon and hints of caramelized fruits. Flavor is rich and voluminous, with slight acidity and pleasant bitterness of tannins. WE LOVE IT!!!