It is refreshing (no pun) to sometimes step out of your comfort zone, the field of the known, and try something new. It sharpens the senses. I visited Georgia last year, the cradle of winemaking, and was particularly impressed by this small avant-garde winery; organic, white wine on lees, nothing added, no fining no filtration, maturing in underground terracotta, of course; avant-garde for us, but traditional for them. A wine I found from them in Australia was this 2021 Pheasant's Tears Goruli Mtsvane.
Comments about the grape variety are very contradictory, so I won't dwell on it here, other than to say the wine should be drunk relatively young to preserve its liveliness. This is truly an orange or amber wine, as you can see in the image below.
The wine is medium-bodied with an interesting flavour profile of lemon, orange peel, apple and mint. The wine is rich, but not ripe in the mouth. It keeps going on the palate, balanced by some firm acidity.
Orange wines can be out of kilter. This is certainly not. I find this an attractive wine, building on decades of experience, and instead of choosing a white wine for starters and a red for mains, this wine would go well for the whole meal.
Score: 93/++
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