Big Orange leads with fruit, not funk. A blend of aromatic white varieties brings citrus and ripe tropical fruit to the glass, while a gentle skin-contact grip adds shape and texture. Expressive, energetic and impossible to accuse of being boring.

Wonderwerk is less a winery and more a fermentation playground. Founded by friends Andrew Lardy and Issamu Kamide in California, their wines pull inspiration from music, food, science and a healthy disregard for convention. Fruit is sourced from a mix of organic and sustainably farmed vineyards across the state and handled with a light touch in the cellar. Fermentations are spontaneous, vessels are mostly neutral, and additions are kept to a minimum, allowing the raw character of the fruit and site to lead the way. The name comes from Wonderwerk Cave in South Africa, home to one of the earliest known signs of human cooking, a million-year-old hearth.