Highlights Record 150+ Orange Wines from Around the World to Taste
September 17, 2025 (New York, NY) — The fourth annual Orange Glou Wine Fair, America’s first and only fair dedicated exclusively to orange wines, is returning to New York City on October 26, 2025 for the biggest-ever celebration of skin-contact wines. Attendees will have the opportunity to try over 150 orange wines from around the world and meet top natural winemakers. Founded by leading orange wine expert and natural wine sommelier Doreen Winkler, who also founded Orange Glou, the world’s first subscription dedicated to orange wines, the 2025 Orange Glou Fair spotlights wines from Austria, Hungary, and the Republic of Georgia, where this style of winemaking originated over 8,000 years ago, as well as from Slovenia, Italy, Germany, and the United States.
Soaring in popularity across the U.S., orange wines are made with white grapes but in the style typical of reds where the skins are kept in contact with the juice after pressing. The process results in a wide range of textures, flavors and hues that span from light pink to dark amber and everything in between, making orange wine an extremely versatile style of wine.
“While the Orange Glou Fair has grown over the years to highlight more and more wines from around the world, the core essence of the Fair has remained unchanged: We are dedicated to featuring the best producers and their top wines, and are committed to showcasing the diverse styles of orange wine and the global interest in making and consuming them,” says Orange Glou Fair founder Doreen Winkler. “The inviting structure of the Orange Glou Fair also creates opportunities for connection, as winemakers have ample space to welcome attendees to their tables and engage in fun and educational tasting sessions with guests.”
Wines featured at Orange Glou Fair must follow Winkler’s criteria: grapes are grown organically or biodynamically by independent producers, hand-picked and fermented with indigenous yeasts; no additives or new oak aging; under 20 mg per liter or no sulfites are added; the wines are unfiltered and unfined.
Participating wineries include Austria’s Weingut Maria & Sepp Muster, Werlitsch, Franz Strohmeier, Markus Altenburger, Claus Preisinger, Weingut Heinrich, Wachstum König, and Wabi-Sabi; Republic of Georgia’s Anapea Village, Pheasant’s Tears, Okros Wines, Kapistoni, Igavi Wines and Zurab Kviriashvili Vineyards; America’s Ruth Lewandowski and Scotty Boy; Italy’s Podere Veneri Vecchio; Slovenia’s Cotar and Blazic; and Germany’s Weingut Bianka & Daniel Schmitt; and more to be announced.
For the first time, the Orange Glou Wine Fair will also host a Georgian Wine Panel (1:45pm-2:45pm) where winemakers from the Republic of Georgia will engage the audience in a lively discussion on the history and practice of orange winemaking.
The Orange Glou Wine Fair will be held at Home Studios (873 Broadway near Union Square, NYC) on October 26 in two sessions. Tickets are $49 for the 11am-2:30pm tasting (includes the Georgian Wine Panel) and $59 for 3pm-6pm, and each include an Orange Glou Fair glass to keep, as well as water and coffee. For trade tickets, email [email protected].
The 2025 Orange Glou Wine Fair is proud to partner with S.Pellegrino & Acqua Panna, Austrian Wine USA, Wines of Hungary, and Wines of Georgia.
About Orange Glou and Founder Doreen Winkler
Orange wines are soaring in popularity right now, and nobody knows this style of wine better than Orange Glou founder, natural wine sommelier and orange wine expert Doreen Winkler. She launched Orange Glou, the world’s first orange wine subscription service in 2019, which delivers a sommelier-curated selection of hard-to-find skin contact wines across the nation and has been named one of USA Today’s 10 Best Wine Clubs since 2020, followed by the Orange Glou wine store in NYC from 2021 – 2025, and the Orange Glou Wine Fair in 2022, an annual celebration of orange wines that takes place in NYC each Fall. All wines are natural, organic or biodynamic and made by independent winemakers. Monthly wine subscriptions: a curated selection of 3, 6 or 12 new, rare and highly allocated bottlings with vinification, tasting and food pairing notes are 3 bottles $105/month; 6 bottles $195/month. @OrangeGlou.
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