Orange Bellini is a Maven Genetics sativa-leaning cultivar built from Orange Truffle Soufflé × Peach Crème Gelato. It took first place for Best Sativa Flower at the 2023 High Times People's Choice Cup in Southern California. Bright orange peel, grapefruit and pine sit over a creamy stone-fruit base, and the lift stays clean and daytime-workable rather than jittery.
Where It Comes From
Orange Bellini arrived in fall 2023 as part of Maven's White Box Collection — a limited-run, all-white-packaged line the California brand reserves for its stronger selections.
The timing mattered. By late 2023 the California market had spent years deep in dessert and gas cultivars, and genuinely bright, citrus-forward sativa-leaning flower had become the harder thing to find on a shelf.
Orange Bellini landed in that gap, then won a consumer-voted cup — a different signal than a judges' panel. People who bought it voted for it, which is the harder vote to engineer.
The Cross
Maven Genetics bred it. The cross is Orange Truffle Soufflé × Peach Crème Gelato, both drawn from Maven's own catalog. This is in-house work on both sides, not a collaboration.
The split reads cleanly in the flower. The Orange Truffle Soufflé side supplies citrus, zest and forward direction. Peach Crème Gelato brings stone fruit, cream and the dessert weight that keeps the citrus from going thin.
What sets it apart from the rest of the citrus lane is that the profile survives the exhale. Fresh orange peel and grapefruit sit over a resinous pine backbone, and the smoke stays sweet with citrus and pine carrying through — the harder half of the job, since plenty of citrus cultivars go loud in the jar and vanish on the draw. Peach and cream surface underneath depending on phenotype and batch.
The flower runs sticky and resinous with violet in the leaf and orange stigmas, though color tracks finishing temperature as much as genetics. No THC figure belongs to Orange Bellini as a strain — menu numbers are batch results from one harvest and one lab, and they move.
Maven has since used it as a parent, including Orange Sapphire with Blue Lotus — a sign the brand treats it as breeding stock rather than a one-off drop. Daytime, outdoors, something to actually do: that is where it fits, and larger amounts turn focus into restlessness.
What It Left Behind
First place, Best Sativa Flower, High Times People's Choice Cup Southern California, 2023, entered by Maven Genetics. That is a named contest with a category and a year attached, which is more than most jars on the shelf can say.
Beyond the cup, its footprint is its use as a parent inside Maven's catalog and its role as a reference point for citrus-forward California flower in that period.
The High Rise Take
A cup-winning, in-house Maven cross that delivers orange peel and pine without losing the creamy Gelato backbone. If it works for you, Orange Sapphire is the direct next step — Maven built it from this plant.