HALVES
"Crystal clear, bright golden flirting with amber hints, the nose has ripe red apples, stone fruit and a sprinkle of almond. The palate has a high but gentle acidity with a nutty core and a finish of smooth minerality. A fully sweet wine with 145.7 g/l of sugar, gentle alcholhol at 9% and TA of 14.9g/l"
Brännland Cider started out in 2010 in Umea, a university town 600 kilometres north of Stockholm, with a dream of making great cider using apples grown in the cold climate of northern Sweden. Founder, Andreas Sundgren, has already had a considerable impact in the cider community by producing the only ice ciders made according to the Quebecois laws, using the naturally cold winters of northern Europe.
Multi-award winning, these ciders are served in UK Michelin star restaurants because of their stand out quality, as well as, most recently, featuring in the columns of The Mail On Sunday and The Observer Food Monthly. Supporters include Peter Riches MW, David Williams, Olly Smith, Joanna Simon and Anthony Rose.
Andreas Sundgren, founder, Brännland Cider
At extraction in February and March the weather was cold and the starting sugar levels through the roof. For a long time during fermentations we were sure that the 2021 would be our sweetest vintage to date seeing as a 3rd of the wines started at sugar levels hovering around 50 degrees brix. However, tasting the finished wines and putting them together, the vintage revealed itself instead as the kind of light, elegant wine we started pursuing with the 2019 vintage. Finally when the numbers came in from our lab we were given a near perfect 1:10 balance between residual sugar and acidity, a relationship we always strive towards but that we’ve only managed to capture in two previous vintages.
Another significant change for the 2021 is that as winemakers we moved to have the lion’s share of our fermentations occur with the natural yeast cultures present in our cellar. We’ve always had wild ferments but for this vintage we’ve started seriously pursuing them giving the vintage yet another dimension.
