Marco Tinessa, Ognostro Bianco 2022

After a stint on a trading desk in Milan, Marco Tinessa began making tiny amounts of wine in his hometown in Campania. With guidance from Italian natural wine icon, Frank Cornelissen, Marco zero’d in on two grapes, aglianico for a red, and fiano for a white. Back at his garage winery in Milan, Marco leaves the fiano juice in contact with its skins for a brief period, yielding one of our favorite orange wines… anywhere. While orange wines come in countless shades and styles, Marco’s is light, almost golden, and tastes more like herbs and sea salt than Tang or kombucha.