Brutes Cider - Northern Tropics (750 mL)
Brutes Cider - Northern Tropics (750 mL)
About "Northern Tropics" from Brutes Cider: Think of this as the "orange wine" equivalent of dry cider, It's much more structured than the others, and strangely reminds us of riesling! This is a true cider made from 100% heirloom varieties of apples from 100 year old trees that sit on an ancient seabed within Stockholm city limits. The salty Stockholm terroir is reminiscent of Basque country, which has us dreaming about all the mouth-watering foods we’d want to pair with this cider.
Vintage: 2021 (harvest season)
Blend: Swedish apples (Ribston, Husmor, Holsteiner)
Style: Sparkling cider pét-nat
ABV: 7%
Vinification: 50 day whole-pulp maceration, followed by spontaneous fermentation and one round of racking.
Fining / Filtration: None
About Brutes Cider: Bonded over a mutual love of natural wine, this small group of friends has set out to create their own expression of terroir in the predominantly grape-less—but fruit-rich—land of Sweden. With seemingly more apple trees than people and a cultural history of foraging wild fruit, Sweden is ripe for the picking. As they are fond of saying: “apples are our grapes.” Just outside of Stockholm, on the islands of Lake Mälaren, apples and pears are handpicked from old orchards that have been largely forgotten, but luckily not abandoned. The soil in their area is old seabed, so there's a salinity that comes through in the apples and the cider in the end. One of their primary orchards was an abandoned biodynamic fruit farm, while the others are ancient orchards that have never fallen victim to modern farming practices (no spray, chemicals). Everything they make is wild fermented, nothing in, nothing out. It's alive, maturing over time, phasing in and out of various stages, eventually settling into a delicious balance.
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- 🍎🍐 Varieties: Apple Variety Info Unavailable
- Features: Blend and No Sulfites Added
- ABV: 7.0%
- Format: 750 mL Bottle
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