Valerie Courreges Orange Metalik

Valerie Courreges Orange Metalik is a dry and stunning Vermentino that expresses tension between a crisp, mineral edge and soft fruit and floral roundness. Vermentino isn't a grape that's often discussed around tables, but this one should be a center of a feast and conversation. This is a full-bodied orange wine with notes of peach, apricot, and orange zest. The fine tannins dance around the mineral freshness before the long, elegant finish. The grapes undergo 30 days of skin contact maceration with the indigenous yeasts. The wine was aged in stoneware jars to preserve the fruit's integrity.

Food Pairing: Roasted Chicken, Chicken Fricassee, Salad Olivier, shell fish, seah

Valerie Courreges has studied and worked as a winemaker and oenologist. She's traveled the world, working in France, Chile, and California, and she understands the soul that terroir breaths into her vines. Her work is described as precise and sincere, a pithiness you'll taste in each of her wines.