Troon’s Multi-Vintage Druid’s Amber wine is a blend of 55% grenache blanc, 33% vermentino, 11% grenache gris, and 1% viognier—all “white grapes” —that were grown and harvested with the intention of making this skin-fermented "orange" or amber wine. Viognier adds complex aromatics and a wonderful spicy character to the blend. Skin-fermented vermentino adds richness and depth, while grenache blanc adds fruitiness and acidity, and grenache gris adds additional layers of phenolic texture.

The process of making amber wines is very similar to that of making red wines, where entire berries and sometimes whole clusters are fermented. If you start with red grapes, this process makes red wine, but if you start with white grapes, it makes amber wine. This Druid’s Amber is also unique in that two-thirds of the wine came from the 2024 vintage, while the remaining one-third had been aging in barrel in the cellar since the 2023 vintage.

Due to their varying ripening times, each variety was harvested and fermented separately in open-top fermentors outdoors, typically with about 30% whole-cluster inclusion. Fermentations proceeded spontaneously with native yeasts, and generally reach dryness in 3-4 weeks. They are then pressed to neutral oak barrels, including a small number of acacia barrels, for aging and spontaneous malolactic fermentation. The wine stays in barrel until just before bottling, when it is racked to a stainless steel tank and a small amount of SO2 is added.