Product: Apfel Perlwein

Vintage: 2022

Apples: In 2022, Franconia went through some extreme heat waves and an intense drought. It did not rain for months. Our apples trees suffered, the fruit stems dried and the apples fell even before they started ripening. Fortunately for us, Felix, Christoph’s older brother, came to the rescue with a few tons of apples from his property located in Württemberg, where the season had been more forgiving. Felix’s apples are varieties perfectly suited for cider making. The resulting cider is a complex and interesting beverage. Less “thirst-quenching” then our 2021 cider, more adapted to the table, where it’ll float along with many vegetable forward dishes.

Method: The apples were delivered in mid-October, we crushed them in the old crusher from our neighbour (older than both of us combined), fermented the juice in stainless until it reach the crucial point for bottling a cider with a moderate final sparkle. This cider has not been disgorged.

Aging: In stainless steel until bottling

Bottled: December 17th 2022

Soil type: N/A

Sulfur: This cider had 10mg sulfur added at bottling.