Piquentum, Malvazija

A solid choice if you're looking to tentatively dip a toe into the pool of orange wine. Just enough skin contact to give it that extra something, but subtle enough not to cause offence. 

Grapes: Malvazija

Place: Istria, Croatia

ABV: 12.5%

Colour: White

Vintage: 2019

PRODUCER PROFILE

This is a tale of a son of a Frenchwoman and an Istrian father, growing native Croatian grapes and making them in an old Mussolini-era concrete water tank. Born in French Basque Country (Jurançon) in the foothills of the Pyrenees, Dimitri Brecevic studied oenology in France and then worked at Domaine de Chevalier in addition to working harvests in Australia, New Zealand, Bordeaux, and Burgundy. In 2004 he decided to invest himself in his father’s homeland of Istria near the town of Buzet - formerly known as Piquentum in the time of the Ancient Romans.