The Boldest Colour in Food & Drink
The home of skin-contact wine, proper juicing and citrus cooking — with honest guides, zero detox nonsense, and a pairing tool that earns its bookmark.
Spice flattens ordinary whites; orange wine's gentle tannin and apricot-and-tea boldness stands up to curry the way a good red stands up to steak. Ask your merchant for a longer skin-contact amber style — Georgian qvevri wines are the classic match.
Orange wine spans light-and-zippy (days of skin contact) to deep amber (months). The tool tells you which end of that spectrum to ask for — your wine merchant does the rest.
Guideline yields for hand-or-press juicing — a good cold-press squeezes a touch more from each fruit.
Buying for a weekend? Multiply up and buy by the net — whole oranges keep happily for a fortnight somewhere cool.
Skin-Contact 101
White grapes, made like a red: the skins stay in, and everything changes — colour, texture, boldness. It's the oldest winemaking on Earth, and the most exciting thing on a modern wine list.
Ferment white grapes with their skins — days to months — and you get amber colour, gentle tannin, and flavours of dried apricot, orange peel and tea. Not sweet, not a novelty: a fourth colour of wine alongside red, white and rosé.
Georgia has made amber wine in buried clay qvevri for millennia — it's the spiritual home. Friuli in north-east Italy and neighbouring Slovenia revived the style for the modern table, and producers across Europe (including Britain) now join in.
Ask a proper merchant for a lighter skin-contact style first — days of contact, not months. If you love the texture, work up to full Georgian amber. Chill it less than a white: cellar-cool, not fridge-cold, lets the aromatics speak.
For adults of legal drinking age. Enjoy wine the way it deserves — slowly, with food, in good company. drinkaware.co.uk has the facts.
The Citrus Kitchen
Premium juicers run from forty quid to six hundred. The price tag guarantees nothing — these three things do.
Cold-press (masticating) juicers squeeze rather than shred. For citrus that means more juice per orange, less froth and bitterness from pith, and juice that keeps better. Centrifugal machines are cheaper and faster — and louder, and wasteful.
The best juicer is the one you'll still use in March. Count the parts, check they're dishwasher-safe, and picture cleaning it half-asleep. A £400 machine that's a chore to clean loses to a £60 one you actually use.
Mostly oranges? A dedicated citrus press is simpler and cheaper than a do-everything machine. Greens, roots and apples too? That's when a proper cold-press earns its counter space. Match the machine to the habit, not the advert.
Our specific model recommendations land here once our testing notes are worth your trust — we don't review what we haven't squeezed.
We Recommend
A short, honest list — things we'd pour, press or plant ourselves. No catalogue dumping.
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Straight Answers
No — lovely question though. It's wine from white grapes, fermented with their skins like a red wine would be. The skins give it an orange-to-amber colour, hence the name. (Wine actually made from oranges exists, but that's a different adventure.)
Bolder than white, lighter than red: dried apricot, orange peel, black tea, sometimes a nutty edge, with a gentle grip of tannin you don't expect from its colour. Styles range from zippy (brief skin contact) to deep and contemplative (months in clay).
Sometimes — but for the right reasons. Pay for slow squeezing, easy cleaning and build quality, not for marketing words like "detox". No juicer detoxes anything; your liver does that for free. Juice because it tastes glorious.
Because we haven't finished squeezing. This site only reviews what it has genuinely tested, and only recommends what we'd buy ourselves. Specific models land here when our notes are worth your trust — that's the whole deal with everything on this site.