Rancio Style Wines Win Fresh Respect
Rancio Style Wines Win Fresh Respect
City scene in Perpignan
The choice of names for this winemaking style is less than optimal.
‘Dry oxidative wines’ is an uncomfortable mouthful of consonants, while the alternative and more fluid rancio wines (from Portuguese) is briefer and borders on poetic. Yet it also sidles close to the word ‘rancid’ from which it derives—unattractive for any aperitif.