Orange Wine Recipes

SPICED ORANGE WINE

Steps:

• Bring all ingredients except oranges to a boil (reserve wine bottles and corks), stirring until sugar has dissolved.
• Remove zest from oranges in a continuous spiral using a vegetable peeler and cut off any white pith with a paring knife. Reserve oranges for another use and divide zest between empty wine bottles.
• Fill bottles with orange wine and cool, uncorked, 1 hour.
• Cork bottles, then chill at least 4 hours.

VIN D'ORANGE (ORANGE WINE)

Steps:

• 1. Place the orange skins, wine, vodka, coffee beans and the vanilla beans in a non-reactive bowl. Add half the sugar and stir.
• 2. Place the remaining half of the sugar in a small, heavy-bottomed saucepan over medium heat and let it caramelize to a deep golden, rotating the pan from time to time to make sure all of the sugar caramelizes evenly. Remove the pan from the heat and pour the caramel into the bowl holding the oranges and the liquid, being careful to pour slowly so that the caramel doesn't get on your skin. The caramelized sugar will immediately turn hard, but don't be concerned. It will eventually melt into the liquid.
• 3. Cover the bowl and let sit for six days, stirring several times a day.
• 4. Strain the wine through three thicknesses of cheesecloth and decant into bottles. Cork the bottles and let them sit for at least 1 month and up to 1 year before opening.

ORANGE WINE

Steps:

• In a large bowl, combine the oranges and the wine and chill the mixture, covered tightly with plastic wrap, for 5 days. Discard the oranges, add the sugar and the Cognac, and stir the mixture until the sugar is dissolved. Strain the mixture through a sieve lined with a double thickness of rinsed and squeezed cheesecloth into a bowl and pour the wine into decorative bottles with corks. Insert a strip of the orange zest into each bottle and chill the wine, corked, for one week. The wine keeps, chilled for 3 months.