• 2025 Sauvage Orange

2025 Sauvage Orange

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Grape Varietal— Verdelho 90% + Gewürztraminer 10% 


Krinklewood's third attempt at Orange wine features an exclusive label by renowned artist Giorgia Bel.

 

Crafted from 100% Organic and Biodynamic Verdelho and Gewürztraminer, the 2025 Sauvage Orange embodies the belief that true beauty comes from resilience. After a severe frost in 2025 left us with only these grapes, we chose not to despair but to create something extraordinary. Through traditional techniques—foot-stomping, fermentation on skins, and gentle basket pressing—this wine reveals a captivating palate of orange rind, tangerine, and delicate whispers of clove and ginger.

Unfiltered and bottled in-house, each bottle stands as a unique reflection of its craftsmanship. It pairs beautifully with spicy, tangy Asian dishes—vibrant and daring, much like the wine itself.

Winemaker Valentina adopted a fully oaked approach, beginning with fermentation in a one-tonne wooden vessel, where 10% whole bunch Gewurztraminer were layered at the bottom of the tank for a delicate carbonic maceration. After four weeks on skins, it was gently basket-pressed and aged for six months in a 500L puncheon. Malolactic fermentation introduced soft, buttery notes, rounding out its complexity.

The palate is rich in notes of grapefruit, with a complex tannic structure from the long skin contact period. More notes of peach tea emerge, accompanied by a zesty, lingering finish. This wine is unfiltered & may appear cloudy in the glass.


Minimal preservatives. (220)
Minimal intervention.
Vegan friendly

Varieties— Verdelho 90% + Gewürztraminer 10%
Vintage— 2025
Country— Australia 
Region— Broke Fordwich, Hunter Valley NSW
Alcohol— 13.5% 
Bottle Size— 750 mL 
Artwork — Giorgia Bel

Drink this wine young to enjoy all its potential.

Giorgia Bel (b. 1990) is a self-taught artist who began painting in 2015 during a period of illness. What began as a means of coping became a profound passion.

Bel’s practice is grounded in memory, imagination and a tender, melancholic connection to place.

Rendered in milky, dirtied-down colour and suffused with the tones of dawn to dusk, the works evoke a drenched landscape, bursting with life and vitality. With skeletal trees and Rothko-like washes, her landscapes blend the known and imagined, guided by a philosophy of art as medicine.