Orange + Natural Wines

The Vice · Orange of Gewürztraminer · Los Carneros, Napa Valley · 2024

Malek Amrani’s The Vice is a Bay Area natural wine project built around a radical idea: take one of the world’s most aromatic white grapes — Gewürztraminer, the “Spice Traminer” that has thrived in cool climates since 16th-century Germany — and vinify it like a red wine. The result is an orange wine of rare expressiveness: 100% unfiltered Gewürztraminer from Los Carneros, Napa Valley, fermented with wild yeast and extended skin contact that extracts the grape’s natural color, tannins, and flavor compounds in a way that no conventional white wine vinification can replicate. 100% vegan. Low sulfites (Free SO₂: 33mg/L). Aged 7 months on lees in stainless steel. At $24.99, this is one of the most distinctive and compelling orange wines made in California.

A vivid, expressive bouquet leaps from the glass: lychee, rose petals, juicy white peach, and a whisper of exotic cardamom. On the palate: silky and seamless, with layered flavors of ripe melon, tangy blood orange, and warm spice. A pitch-perfect balance of sweetness and acidity — residual sugar just 2.19g/100ml — keeps it fresh and vibrant through a long, spiced finish. Serve slightly cool. Drink now through 2027.

• Producer: The Vice (Malek Amrani)
• Vintage: 2024
• Appellation: Los Carneros, Napa Valley, California
• Varietal: 100% Gewürztraminer (unfiltered)
• Style: Orange wine (skin-contact)
• Vinification: Wild yeast fermentation · Temperature controlled · Extended skin maceration · 7 months on lees in stainless steel
• ABV: 11% · RS: 2.19g/100ml · Free SO₂: 33mg/L
• Certifications: 100% Vegan · Low Sulfites
• Size: 750ml
• Tasting Notes: Lychee, rose petals, white peach, cardamom, ripe melon, blood orange, warm spice, long spiced finish
• Cellar Potential: Drink now through 2027
• Food Pairings: Spiced Moroccan chicken, Thai curry, aged gouda, charcuterie, roasted root vegetables

Wild yeast, skin contact, and Los Carneros Gewürztraminer — California orange wine at its most expressive.

Vermentino Lovely gold color, nice dry fruit notes with soft tannins, and enough acidity to keep it refreshing. Our first canned Orange Wine! Natural vinification without addition of sulfur: indigenous yeasts, no enzymes, nothing added except grappes. Maceration in infusion for 4 weeks of destemmed Vermentino. 100% MLF. Unfiltered. Vinification and aging in stainless steel tank

Winemaker Notes

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