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4 days skin contact - COZs Pop Orange
4 days skin contact - COZs Pop Orange
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The Wine & Winemaker
- Winemaker: Tiago Teles & António Marques da Cruz (COZs)
- Region: Lisbon (Serra de Montejunto), Portugal
- Grape: Vital
The Story
For the second bottle in our progression, we temporarily leave Georgia behind and fly to the fresh Atlantic coast of Portugal. The men behind the COZs project, Tiago and António, are two absolute legends in the Portuguese natural wine scene. With their 'Pop' line, they aim to make exactly what the name suggests: lively, popular, and highly drinkable wines. They use the local, nearly forgotten Vital grape for this, sourced from old vines rooted in chalky soils high up in the mountains. While bottle 1 only saw a fraction of the skins, this Pop Orange is a proper entry level orange wine with a short, gentle maceration of just a few days. The juice then ferments and ages in large concrete vats, which keeps the wine wonderfully pure and untamed. It is the perfect, seamless second step in our skin contact journey.
The Vibe & Tasting Notes
Do not expect a heavy or intimidating orange wine here. The COZs Pop pours into your glass with a light, yellow orange hue. On the nose, you immediately get that fresh ocean breeze, combined with aromas of apricot, nectarine, and a soft hint of beeswax. On the first sip, you can truly taste the influence of the nearby ocean: a lively, salty minerality perfectly balanced by juicy fruit. Here, you feel a very gentle 'grip' from the grape skins on the finish for the first time, giving the wine just that little bit of extra texture and character. This is the ideal thirst quencher for warm spring days. Pop it open nice and cold alongside light snacks, fresh fish, or soft sheep cheeses, and enjoy.
How does it work?
How does it work?
Images are for illustration purposes only. The actual wines in each box may vary.
A box with the amount of bottles of your choosing delivered every month on the first week. The theme changes monthly. One month you get wines from Hungary, some months all oranges, some months... who knows!
Pause or change your subscription at any time. Going on holiday and want to skip a month? No problem. Got excited after trying out a 1-bottle box and want to go for the 3-bottle box next? No problem!
Why natural wine costs more, and why it’s worth it
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No shortcuts
Growers who refuse pesticides and chemical additives accept that they’ll lose a significant part of their harvest to weather, disease, and unpredictable nature, but they do it to keep their wines pure, alive, and honest.
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Risk and loss
Nature swings between plenty and scarcity; frost, hail, heat and ferments can erase volumes, fewer bottles must carry the farm’s costs, with ageing measures adding expense to keep the wine clean and true over time.
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Integrity and handwork
Hands replace chemicals: they weed, manage canopies, pick, and sort by hand; presses and gravity moves protect texture, while cleanliness and patient ageing deliver purity without shortcuts, increasing labor but preserving integrity in every bottle.
