Matías Morcos Naranjo Moscatel Rosa 2024

How much orange wine is too much orange wine? We asked ourselves this last week.

Look, our shelves are tiny. There's only so much we can carry. But then we looked outside and the sun has been shining, things are getting warmer, and you're all crowding the beautiful slopes of Bickford Park. So OF COURSE we needed to add more orange wine. How could we resist a Moscatel from Argentina that they call orange but also call rosé?

The funny thing about Moscatel is that when you let it macerate, its thin, frisky peel turns the wine into this see-through, pinky-orange, nebulous thing we're completely fascinated by. The wine balances a quirky complexity with a fresh varietal expression: candied orange peel, runny honey, hibiscus flower, dark raisins. Utterly delicious.

So no, there is no such thing as too much orange wine. Not in this weather. Not in this park. Not ever.