Orange Wine is a Thing #WinePairingWeekend

I have been on this earth long enough to have at least heard of most kinds of wine, but when our host for this month of #WinePairingWeekend, Martin Redmon of ENOFYLZ Wine Blog told us we were going to explore Orange Wines, I had to go look it up. Thus the title was born, as I felt that there were others like me who didn't know a thing about Orange Wines.

Orange wine isn't a type of wine, it is a wine that is made by leaving the skin and seeds on the grapes that make white wine.  Contact with the skins may be just a few days or a few months, but the end result is that the wine is colored anywhere from a light peach to salmon orange.

I found my orange wine at a local wine store, Cork and Rind, which I have mentioned before.  It is a wonderful wine store that carries a wide variety of wine, including my orange wine!  Here is a bit about the wine I chose which was

Geeky Details

name: Savignon by Swick Wines
grapes: Sauvignon Blanc
age: 2018
area: Columbia Valley AVA

Money Talk $22.99

Nose: fresh, stone fruit,
Color: medium orange, like the dark part of a peach
Palate: a little pineapple, a little beer-like finish
Pairings: anything that goes with a red, like salmon

We paired it with a homey Salmon Stir Fry.  The pineapple notes added sweetness to the dish, giving it a bit of a Hawaiian flavor.  The stir fry vegetables loved the fresh taste, a little bit like how lemon freshens up a dish. The two played quite well together!

Starting to like this orange wine thing?  Go and check out all these other posts on this unique wine!

• Camilla of Culinary Adventures With Camilla will be Diving into the Skin Fermented Wine Pool of Two Shepherds Winery.
• Wendy of A Day in the Life on the Farm presents Donkey and Goat Skin Fermented Roussanne: A Baaaaad Ass Wine.
• Andrea of The Quirky Cork takes up Turkish Amber Wines and Fast Food.
• Olivier of In Taste Buds We Trust is Trying Orange and Non-Orange Wine with Jamie’s Kinda Niçoise Salad.
• Lori of Exploring The Wine Glass asks Orange You Glad I Have Wine?
• Jeff of Food Wine Click! offers Wine 201: Orange Wine Primer.
• Jill of L’Occasion has us Thinking Wine: The Engaging World of Orange Wine.
• Linda of My Full Wine Glass is Revisiting NY Finger Lakes Skin-Contact White Wines.
• David of Cooking Chat proffers Cauliflower Bacon Spread with Amber Wine from Georgia.
• Gwendolyn at Wine Predator will be featuring Orange Wines from California and Italy by Accident and On Purpose Paired with Shrimp Curry.
• Lauren at The Swirling Dervish posts He Said, She Said: Ryme Cellars and the Tale of Two Vermentinos.
• Susannah of Avvinare serves up Orange Wine From Slovenia’s Movia Paired with Homemade Sushi.
• Katrina of The Corkscrew Concierge wonders Is Orange (Wine) the New Everything Wine?
• Nicole at Somm’s Table is Cooking to the Wine: Kabaj Rebula and Chicken with Mushroom Escabeche and Lentils.
• Rupal, the Syrah Queen advises us that Radikon Orange Wine – Not Just For Hipsters.
• Deanna of Asian Test Kitchen offers Logan Wines’ Orange Wine And The Bacon That Changed It All.
• Terri of Our Good Life declares Orange Wine is a Thing.
• Host Martin at ENOFYLZ Wine Blog serves up A Cadre Of California Skin-Contact Wines Paired With Ethnic Fare.

The stir fry was super easy, and here is the recipe we created just for this wine!

Salmon Stir Fry

Yield: 2

Author: Terri Steffes

Prep time: 10 MCook time: 12 MTotal time: 22 M

A delicious and easy stir fry that we made to go with Orange Wine. It's a Thing.

Ingredients:

• 2 c. cooked rice
• 1 T olive oil
• 1 T sesame oil
• 1 glove of garlic, minced
• 1/2 t ground ginger
• 2 salmon filets, cut into chunks
• 2 c frozen stir fry vegetables
• 2 t rice vinegar
• 1/4 c soy sauce (we use low sodium)

Instructions:

1. Heat oils in a large pan.  
2. Add garlic and ginger, stirring constantly.
3. Add salmon, cook until opaque, turning as needed.
4. Cook 2-3 minutes until fish flakes with a fork.
5. Add vegetables, soy sauce and vinegar. 
6. Stir well.
7. Plate by adding rice to a bowl, then add salmon mixture.
8. Topp with additional soy sauce.

Calories
517.17

Fat (grams)
25.08

Sat. Fat (grams)
3.60

Carbs (grams)
62.29

Fiber (grams)
5.99

Net carbs
56.31

Sugar (grams)
5.53

Protein (grams)
13.02

Sodium (milligrams)
2670.57

Cholesterol (grams)
0.00

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