Naranjo 2023 Matias Morcos

A skin contact wine that has everything you could look for in an 'orange' wine – the quirky complexity that can be found from this technique but also, crucially, fresh aromatics and varietal expression. Here’s a wine that will make you smile, with its aromas of candied orange peel and runny honey, and hints of exotic flowers; it almost seems to have a hint of botrytis on the nose. The wine is completely dry with flavours of dried citrus fruits and raisins, medium-bodied and floral on the end. Utterly delicious. Made from Moscatel Rosado, (another Criolla family member, even if it is not officially recognised as such yet) the wine is indeed a lovely rose pink colour in the glass. Definitely not orange!

2023 - 12% abv

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Matias Morcos is a young winemaker who leads the third generation of a family wine business founded in 1950 by Lebanese immigrants. They bought vineyards originally planted by Italians around 70 years previously, at relatively low altitude (600 metres above sea level) some 90 miles east of Mendoza City. This area was once the home of 'bulk' production in the Argentine wine industry,  and the Morcos family, like their neighbours, were entirely focused on large-scale wine production for more than 60 years. Matias Morcos has made it his personal mission to shift the focus of the family business away from bulk wine and to hone in on the rich resources he has within his grasp: old pergola-trained vines with an incredible story to tell. He is restoring a 100 year-old winery, refurbishing and dividing old concrete tanks for small-batch production of wines with irresistible character and unique expression.