Matchbook Distilling, Honeymoon 350 mL

Orange wine made from oranges! The mango orange is incredibly sweet — tasting like its namesake mango fruit with vanilla and white flowers. We pressed the juice and got it into a fermenter with a bit of honey and a few pounds of Freak of Nature Milk Oolong and Mallorca Melon Tea, both from Rare Tea Cellar, and let it rip. After a few short days we strained off the solids and bottled Honeymoon with a dash of sugar to ferment in bottle — creating a dash more alcohol and the perfect amount of carbonation. These bottles are light in alcohol and acid — which means they won't be fresh forever. Drink them young. They remind us of a happy place between a wild, low intervention wine and a spritz. They're perfect for this season, when summer and fall create the most delicious overlap. Happy harvest.