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De Levende

De Levend Cortez Orange 2025

$30.00

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Style: Dry, medium-bodied orange wine; the 12-day skin maceration gives the wine its amber color, gentle tannin grip, and textural depth
Grapes & terroir: Sauvignon Blanc, Chardonnay, and Muscat; organically farmed vineyards in Mendocino and Sonoma counties, Northern California
Winemaking: Hand-harvested; 12-day skin maceration; spontaneous fermentation with indigenous yeasts; unfined, unfiltered, no added sulfites
Serving temperature & decanting: Serve well chilled at 48–52°F; no decanting needed
Pairing: Tajine de poulet aux citrons confits (Moroccan braised chicken with preserved lemons)
Similar to: Skin-contact Sauvignon Blanc from the Loire

De Levend Cortez Orange 2025 is a dry skin-contact wine made from a blend of Sauvignon Blanc, Chardonnay, and Muscat sourced from organically farmed vineyards in Mendocino and Sonoma counties, California. The grapes undergo 12 days of skin maceration before spontaneous fermentation with indigenous yeasts. Made by Les Lunes winery in the Bay Area, De Levend Cortez Orange 2025 is bottled unfined, unfiltered, and without added sulfites. The 12-day maceration extracts color, tannin, and texture from the skins, while the Muscat contributes aromatic intensity and the Sauvignon Blanc and Chardonnay provide acidity and structure. California.

We will process and ship your order in 2-3 business days, you will receive a shipping confirmation email with tracking as soon as the Carrier scans the shipping label.

Ground shipping time depends on location, here's a breakdown:

West Coast: 1-2 business days
Midwest: 3-4 business days
East Coast: 5 business days

Process time is not shipping time. Shipping time starts from the days successive to the day of shipping, after the order has been processed.

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If you'd like to receive a refund for a package that was returned to us after FedEx made three delivery attempts, we can do that but we must keep a $20 refund fee; FedEx charges us a lot of money for returns, unfortunately, I can't stress this enough.

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Heat/Frost damage

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Producer profile

De Levende

Les Lunes is the flagship wine label of Diego Roig and Shaunt Oungoulian, two winemakers based in the Bay Area of California who work as true vignerons — farming, managing, and producing all within their own operation. Both are UC Davis graduates in viticulture and enology who trained with leading figures of the French natural wine world before returning to California to make wine on their own terms.

Diego's training included time with Bob Cabral at Williams-Selyem, Vanessa Wong at Peay Vineyards, Didier Barral at Domaine Léon Barral in Faugères, Giusto Occhipinti at COS in Sicily, and Philippe Valette in Mâcon, among others. Shaunt studied natural wine during his time at Davis, then went to France to work with Philippe Valette in Mâcon and Julie Balagny in Fleurie. The two founded Les Lunes and its sister label Populis in 2014, starting as a small négoce and contract farming operation and steadily building toward their current model, which centers on leasing and organically farming over 40 acres of vineyard land across Napa, Sonoma, and Mendocino.

The Les Lunes line is built from grapes they farm themselves and represents the more structured, classically minded side of their production — site-specific wines made for aging. Populis draws on a wider network of organic growers across California for fruit-forward, everyday-drinking wines. The cellar operates from the Bay Area, where the team focuses on native yeast fermentations, no additions, and minimal intervention at every stage. Only a small touch of sulfur may be added at bottling if the wine requires it, determined barrel by barrel.

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Wine region

California, United States

Mendocino County sits roughly 100 miles north of San Francisco, immediately above Sonoma County along California's North Coast. It is one of the state's most committed organic and biodynamic farming zones — by some estimates, a higher proportion of its vineyard acreage is certified organic than anywhere else in California. The county's terrain is rugged and varied, with the coastal redwood belt giving way to inland valleys, ridgelines, and the complex series of sub-appellations that run along and above the Mendocino coastline and into the warmer interior.

The county's best-known sub-appellation is Anderson Valley, a narrow west-east valley running from the coast inland toward Boonville, famous for Pinot Noir, Chardonnay, and Alsatian varieties that thrive in the cool, fog-influenced maritime climate. Further inland, Redwood Valley and the Ukiah Valley are warmer zones historically associated with Zinfandel, Carignan, and other varieties from old-vine plantings that go back in some cases to the pre-Prohibition era. Ukiah — specifically referenced in prior vintages of Cortez as a source of fruit — sits in the warmer floor of the Ukiah Valley on sandy and alluvial soils with reliable warmth and long growing seasons, producing aromatic white varieties with ripe, generous fruit.

Sonoma County to the south adds another dimension to the Cortez blend's source material: a geographically varied county running from the cool, fog-laced Sonoma Coast and Russian River Valley to the warmer Dry Creek Valley and Alexander Valley interior. Organic farming has deep roots in Sonoma too, with many multi-generational growers having transitioned to or maintained sustainable practices over decades.

Frequently asked question

When is my order shipping?

We are doing your best to ship your order in 2-3 business days.

We will process and ship your order in 2-3 business days, you will receive a shipping confirmation email with tracking as soon as the Carrier scans the shipping label.

Ground shipping time depends on location, here's a breakdown:

West Coast: 1-2 business days
Midwest: 3-4 business days
East Coast: 5 business days

Process time is not shipping time. Shipping time starts from the days successive to the day of shipping, after the order has been processed.

See here our shipping policy.

Do I have to sign upon delivery?

Yes, someone 21 years or older must sign for the package.

Signature on delivery is mandatory for wine deliveries. Please make sure someone is at the shipping address to sign for the package.

If applicable, please consider delivering the package to a business address to ensure someone is available to sign for the package.

We also have the option of delivering the package to a Carrier's store for pickup. Please reach out to us to coordinate.

Carrier will try to delivery a package up to three times before returning the package to us.

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What if I miss a delivery?

Worry not, we have options, but please read carefully.

If you miss a delivery and a package gets returned to us we have two options:

1) Reship the package right away: due to the very high cost of shipping and returns, we must charge a re-shipping fee to be determined based on package size and shipping destination.

2) Consolidate the returned package with your next order: this option is free of charge and it's the most popular option.

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