Many different shades of white (NZ)

The colour we admire in a white wine tends to be finely nuanced – especially when we’re talking young whites. There’s everything from virtually colourless to straw, straw yellow, straw gold, straw with a pink or green tinge – so many permutations, and we haven’t arrived at pale gold yet.
Deborah Walton-Derry and Peter Morice write in Marlborough Express this points to the obvious – white wines aren’t white, although a very young wine may be colourless. Pale green, pale copper or even amber are the colours associated with “white” wine.