Brutes Cider - Toot Your Horn (750 mL)
Brutes Cider - Toot Your Horn (750 mL)
Toot Your Own Horn - Sparkling Cider made from Swedish apples (Wealthy, Cox Pomona) from orchards around Stockholm, flavored with collected wild apples (5%). Maceration for five days.
A French cider born in Stockholm. A little rustic on the nose, but with a clear freshness that shines through. On the palate it is complex and full-bodied. Dried, sweet fruits and baked apples meet hot acidity in perfect balance. Insanely drinkable. The high carbonation makes it the perfect companion, whether spring, summer or autumn.
Vintage: 2020 (harvest season)
Blend: Swedish grown apples (Wealthy, Cox Pomona)
Style: Sparkling cider pét-nat
ABV: 7%
Vinification: 5 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.
- Dry-to-Sweet Scale:
- Tannins: Medium
- Acidity: Medium Plus
- 🍎🍐 Varieties: Apple Variety Info Unavailable
- Features: Blend and No Sulfites Added
- ABV: 7.0%
- Format: 750 mL Bottle
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