Samantha May 'Citrine' Skin-Contact Riesling 2025

Our first ‘orange’ wine from Orange and a little experimental.

100% Riesling. 8 months skin contact. Basket Pressed.

Elderflower, steeped camomile tea, lemon balm, mandarin essence and persistent length with complex tannins drifting on the palate. Very crisp at less than 1g/L residual sugar. Bottled unfiltered this wine does have a slightly cloudy appearance.

Called ‘Citrine’ derived from the Latin word citrus and by way of the French citrin or citron (lemon), citrine is a yellow to orange variety of quartz. We found this name fitting for this wine after a trip to the Australian Museum.

Single Vineyard: Carrington, Orange NSW, which sits above 850m elevation.

Winemaker: Samantha Sutherland