# SiurAlta Orange (2023)

- **Producer:** Vins Nus
- **Colour:** orange
- **Type:** still
- **Grapes:** Malvasía, Garnacha Blanca, Cariñena Blanca
- **Region:** Catalonia, Spain
- **Style:** Natural
- **Alcohol:** 13.0%
- **Average price:** €22
- **Vegan:** Yes
- **Contains sulphites:** Yes
- **When to drink:** Now or Later
- **Serving temperature:** 8–12 °C
- **Aromas & flavours:** orange, peach, apricot, blossom, resinous, dried apricot

## About this wine

SiurAlta Orange is produced by Vins Nus, an experimental natural winery created by acclaimed Barcelona architect Alfredo Arribas in DO Montsant, Catalonia. The project emphasizes low-intervention, mountain-grown wines crafted without oak or synthetic additives. The grapes are sourced from high-altitude organic vineyards situated at 820 meters elevation in Gritella and Collet Blanc, where cool night temperatures and clay-slate soils preserve exceptional vitality and tension in the fruit.

## Interesting facts

- Founded by renowned Barcelona architect Alfredo Arribas, who transitioned into low-intervention winemaking.
- Vineyards sit at an extreme elevation of 820 meters above sea level on clay and slate soils.
- Macerated on grape skins for up to 60 days inside handmade stoneware amphorae.

## Food pairing

The wine's bright high-altitude acidity, bone-dry profile, and gentle skin-contact tannins allow it to bridge the gap between white and red wine pairings. It cuts through rich and textured dishes while harmonizing with warm spices, earthy mushrooms, and fermented ingredients.

## Wine making process

Fruit is harvested by hand early in the season to maintain high natural tartaric acidity. The grapes are manually destemmed and undergo extended skin-contact maceration for 36 to 60 days inside small stoneware amphorae (tinajas de gres). Fermentation occurs spontaneously using only wild indigenous yeasts. The wine ages for 6 months in a combination of clay amphorae and stainless steel tanks without oak contact, before being bottled unfined, unfiltered, and with no added sulfites.