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orange wine

orange wine noun: a type of wine made from white wine grapes whose skins are not removed.

Noun

orange wine (countable and uncountable, plural orange wines)

  1. (idiomatic) A type of wine made from white wine grapes whose skins are not removed.
    • Orange wines are unlike a white and unlike a red, although they are probably more like a red than a white. They're tannic and sometimes a little bitter depending on how long the skins have contact with the juice.2015, Lettie Teague, Wine in Words: Some Notes for Better Drinking, Rizzoli Publications, →ISBN
    • Another summer is beginning in Marseille. Heat, rocks, panisse. Packs of Vogue cigarettes and bottles of orange wine, all emptied.2025 June 14, Robin Van Liebergen, “How not to summer in Marseille”, in FT Weekend (Life & Arts section), London: The Financial Times Ltd., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 19
    Synonyms:
    amber wine
  2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see orange, wine: especially, wine made from oranges (a citrus fruit).

Synonyms of orange wine

Forms of orange wine

pluralorange wines

Origin of orange wine

The idiomatic sense referring to a type of grape wine is from the color; this class of wines has been made for centuries (in many countries), but this particular English-language term for them was coined as a marketing term in the early 21st century (more in Wikipedia at orange wine § Terminology). The literal sense referring to a type of citrus wine is attested since the 19th century.

Questions about orange wine

What does orange wine mean?
Orange wine means a type of wine made from white wine grapes whose skins are not removed.
What part of speech is orange wine?
Orange wine is a noun.
What is the plural of orange wine?
The plural of orange wine is orange wines.

Words near orange wine in the dictionary

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  2. orange tree
  3. orange trees
  4. Orange Walk
  5. Orange Walk Town
  6. orange wine
  7. orange wines
  8. orange-American
  9. orange-Americans
  10. orange-ball-tree
  11. orange-ball-trees

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