No, orange wine isn’t made from oranges – and nine other myths about 8,000-year-old amber vino busted

After customers complained about the lack of orange flavour in Aldi’s new orange wine, Emma Henderson asks some of the UK’s top experts to separate fact from fiction around this new ‘old’ wine taking British supermarkets and wine bars by storm and how you should really be drinking it

Orange wine is nothing new – it’s been around for 8,000 years and hails from Georgia (Getty)

Is a wine list without an orange number worth its salt anymore?

You would be forgiven for thinking orange wine (also known as amber wine or skin contact) is something new to grace our glasses. It’s been steadily cropping up in restaurants and wine bars across the country over the past few years.

If you look a little deeper, though, you’ll find it’s anything but new.