Thank you for these amazing words @valkatnyc Posted @withrepost • @valkatnyc You know I'd be perfectly happy to drink nothing but “German-speaking wines” every day of the year. But there are a few things that can pull me out of that orbit and into other universes. Like this Riesling. Grown at 650 masl, organically farmed, skin-fermented, 0/0 — from Greece. A one-off made by the Vaimaki family in 2013. Spicy, resinous, bursting with tangerine, quince, and clove animated by vivacious acidity. Alluringly complex w/ sleek, silken texture and weight. One of the most indelibly distinctive, delicious expressions of Riesling I’ve encountered.⁣ ⁣ But it would never have crossed my path if my husband hadn’t signed me up for the @orange_glou wine club. I’ve written about this before. How the last thing a wine writer thinks she needs is a wine club subscription. How the assumptions built into wine clubs - cheap bottles in trite combinations designed to move stock - keep most wine people from buying in. And how Orange Glou blew all of this up for me by proving itself a source of the most incredible discoveries. ⁣ ⁣ Since 2019, founder @doreenmwinkler has been scouring the globe for difficult-to-source (the Mater Natura 3, for instance, was one of 900 bottles) skin-fermented whites from around the globe that always open my mind and frequently melt my heart. The fact that they are orange is – almost – beside the point. They are like core samples expertly drawn from key points around the wine world. ⁣ ⁣ Now you can access them at Doreen's adorable Broome Street shop in NYC, through the club and - on Sunday, 6 November 12-4 p.m. - at her first Orange Glou Fair. 50+ orange wine producers – including some of my very favorites @2naturkinder @weingutheinrich @grawu.wine @maloofwines @schoedl.family – will be there, pouring, chatting, and sharing the orange love. I hope to see you, too. To that end, fair info is up in the bio link. ✴️💥 ⁣