Two Shepherds -- 2018 “Centime” Skin-Fermented Vermentino, Fields Family Vineyard -- Lodi, CA orange wine gets its name

orange wine gets its name from its deep-golden-to-amber color that is the result of making a white grape into wine using the skins as one would a red wine

After pressing the wine is aged for a year in French oak barrels

with the fruit for this wine mainly coming from younger

the couple take a hands-off approach to the winemaking process

not the fruity style of wine often produced in neighboring Beaujolais

Two Shepherds -- 2018 “Centime” Skin-Fermented Vermentino, Fields Family Vineyard -- Lodi, CA orange wine gets its nameWilliam Allen, the winemaker at Two Shepherds, has managed the rare feat of earning a trophy case full of accolades from the mainstream wine press while maintaining cred in the natural wine world at the same time. When you source only from family run, organically sustainably farmed vineyards, manipulation of the fermenting juice is unnecessary. We had one of his non skin ferment white blends in a previous Kompas Club, but this is a fully skin