Amber Revolution: How the world learned to love orange wine by Simon J Woolf
You wait all year for an amber wine book then two come along at once. With its striking cover, featuring a fist clenching a glass of orange wine aloft, inspired by the Russian revolution posters of the early 20th century, even before opening it, you know you’re in for an interesting read.
The weighty tome is packed with gorgeous landscape and portrait photographs by Ryan Opaz and a foreword from amber wine convert Doug Wregg, founder of minimum intervention wine importer Les Caves de Pyrène, who describes the book as: “a rattling good read”.
Woolf takes the reader on a tour of the world’s key amber wine hubs, from Friuli and Slovenia to Georgia, and delves into the histories of the people, places and cultural traditions in each of the three key cradles of orange wine.
Packed with portrait shots, this book makes a hero of the 180 winemakers behind some of the best-known amber wines enjoyed around the world, and many hidden gems yet to be discovered outside of their homeland.
Aiming to be the definitive guide to orange wine, the book charts the origins of skin contact wines and the recent renaissance of the style, which continues to be enthusiastically embraced around the world by wine nerds and novices alike. On a practical level, it includes food pairing tips and advice on choosing the best amber wines for your palate, from light floral styles to tannic ageworthy ambers.
