Holiday Top Drop - what our vignerons are drinking this holiday season!

Your guide to Orange wine this Christmas and New Year!

Christmas in Orange is all about good food, and great wine! We asked our region's vignerons to share what they'll be drinking this holiday season so that you can add a little Orange to your festivities this Christmas and New Year!

• Swift NV Cuvee, winner of 4 Trophies and 6 Gold Medals, including Best Sparkling at the 2018 NSW Wine Awards, and Best Wine of Show at the 2018 Orange Wine Show - celebrate in style!
   
• Pop the Prosecco-Ho-Ho-Ho this festive season! Orange's only Prosecco, crafted by See Saw Wine, is your perfect bubbly for this Christmas and New Years. It is available online and See Saw offer free shipping for a case of 12 bottles or more.
   
• 2016 RIKARD Black Label Pinot Noir awarded 95/100 by James Halliday. Rikard Wines Pinot Noir has dark sour cherry, cloves, spice, chocolate and mulberries on the palate are a perfect match for Christmas lunch
   
• 2011 Stockman's Ridge 'Storm' Sparkling, awarded Champion Sparkling at the Cool Climate Wine Show and the Australian Small Wine Makers Show plus Gold Medal the Orange Wine Show.
   
• 2018 Heifer Station Pinot Noir is a soft yet medium textured wine which displays sour cherry, aromatic strawberry and raspberry characters throughout it's ruby red hue and subtle complexity.
   
• 2017 Angullong 'Fossill Hill' Rosato, drink pink with this modern rosé with an enticing, lively, crisp palate that received a Gold Medal at the 2018 Wine Awards!
   
• 2017 Tamburlaine Reserve Malbec, this drop scream Christmas with it's rich spice, vanilla and anise palate, and mulberry and cherry aroma. Winner of a Gold Medal at the 2018 International Organic Wine Awards!
   
• Colmar Estate 2015 Chardonnay-Pinot Noir Sparkling - It's the first Sparkling from the team at Colmar, but boy it was worth the wait! Elegant, fine bubbles with a citrus aroma - this one is for (and worth!) celebrating!
   
• Nashdale Lane 2018 Reisling. Winning Silver at the National Wine Show and Gold at the Orange Wine Show - it's the perfect drop to balance a rich Christmas lunch, with notes of mineral, lime and musk!
   
• De Salis Lofty Cuvée, full of character from our region's highest vineyard, it's a gorgeous glass of bubbles to celebrate the year that was!
   
• 2017 Ross Hill Pinnacle Series Sauvignon Blanc is a refined expression of Orange Sauvignon Blanc. This drop teases citrus and dried herbs with mineral characters, and was listed amongst the Top 100 Wines of Australia in Rob Gedde's 2019 'The Gold Book'.

All Images courtesy of Pauline Morrissey