2023 Mixed 6

Three bottles each of the 2023 Cider of the Arve & 2023 Sparkling Apple Wine #3

A blend of organically grown cider apples from Our Mates Farm in Geeveston. 

A true farmhouse cider; with fine tannin, intense flavour, minerality, a little spice and great acidity. The brightest and deepest electric orange in colour and wonderful with food or as an aperitif. A touch of sweetness to dance on the tongue due to being made using the ancestral method, which in turn is balanced by the tight tannin structure. A cider to drink now after already being aged for 18 months, or to hold on to for a very long time and watch the flavours develop. 

Harvested from the orchard floor by hand throughout the autumn and winter with a portion of the fruit curing for additional time.

Naturally keeved and slowly fermented through the winter, this cider was bottled without any additions in late August of 2023 and was disgorged after 12 months on lees. 

This cider is made with a blend of yarlington mill, bulmers norman, improved foxwhelp, michelin, cemetiere du blangy, & frequin rouge apples picked from the end of April until the end of June in 2023

900 bottles produced 

Sparkling Apple Wine #3:
A complex and playful style of cider made with grape skins, heritage and cider apples from two beautiful sites in southern Tasmania. 

Apples grown by Our Mates Farm in Geeveston and grapes grown by R.D’meure in Flowerpot

This cider is made from two distinct ferments. One ferment started in April with heritage apples and the addition of Chardonnay and Pinot Gris. The other ferment started in June, with the addition of late ripening fruit; sturmer pippin, frequin rouge & cabernet franc. 

Blended in the winter and bottled at the beginning of August 2023. We were happy to stretch this ferment out over a long period of time, creating a lot of depth and complexity. Other sparkling apple wines we have made have fermented quickly over a month and gone to bottle due to the amount of yeast activity, creating a light and easy drinking style of cider. This drink imparts those characters with the addition of far more flavour thanks to a slower ferment. The cider is zippy, tight and fresh upon opening, and overtime it displays the complexity of the grapes and apples, revealing itself to be a beautiful reflection of fermentation with a true amber hue. 

Another cider that will happily be drunk now after ageing for 18 months, or will happily sit in your cellar for many years to come.

Apples: bulmers norman, yarlington mill, geeveston fanny, sturmer pippin, cox’s orange pippin, browns apple, red delicious, bramley, crofton, royal gala

Grapes: chardonnay, pinot gris, cabernet franc

1200 bottles produced

8.5% alcohol