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Monday 19 October 2015
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I’m not sure which is more a sign of the times. That orange wine finally has an entry in the Oxford Companion, or that it is being written about in Vogue magazine here in the United States under the headline ‘What you should be sipping this fall'.

Once obscure to the point of being cultish and hip, skin-macerated white wines are now apparently the equivalent of the must-have seasonal fashion accessory. Stories about orange wine have been showing up in non-wine-oriented media for the past few months with increasing regularity. Fast Company magazine, The Huffington Post, the gadget...