Jakot Blue Label Nando (Orange Wine) 2020

Jakot Blue Label Nando, Orange Wine, Organic Wine, short Skin Maceration, floral, aromatic. This is a great entry point to orange wine as the maceration is fairly short – a really elegant wine made from Tokaj (or Fruiliano) and is the most floral of the three blue label wines that they make. The wines undergo a natural fermentation in tank and are bottled with a minimum of SO2.

This small winery based in Slovenia right on the border with the Collio region of Friuli produces traditional orange wines of great value.

It is a small operation, just 5.5 hectares – 60% of which are in Friuli- Collio, the rest on the Slovenian side of the border. Here they have a unique micro-climate - warm, mediterranean sea air, cooled by the Julian Alps just north of the estate. All the farming is organic although not certified and mainly local grapes are used – Rebula (aka Ribolla Gialla); Malvazija (Malvasia) and Friuliano. Fermentation takes place naturally with no addition of sulphites (though a touch is used at bottling). Andrej Kristancic now runs the winery named after his Grandfather and produces orange wines of excellent quality and typicity with better than average value for money.