The Ice Cider
Landscape, fruit and people come together to shape the finished ice cider.
Iscider
Brännland Apple Ice 2023, 375 ml
Brännland Apple Ice 2023 is the lightest vintage we’ve produced so far in spite of the technical components coming in very similar to previous years. Around 100 grams of residual sugar balanced by 11 grams of acidity and slightly lower ABV than previous vintages. As usual Mutsu is the dominant fruit but this year we’ve also included a small volume of Golden Delicious, an apple similar to Mutsu and one of Mutsu’s parents. Fermentations in spring were carried out entirely using wild yeast and finished unusually fast in spite of the low fermentation temperatures we work under. The fast ferment have created an even wilder wine, clean and light without losing assertion or body. We’ve also, as a result of expanded production, been able to choose from a broader and therefore better, material when blending. It is with great pleasure and pride that we present Brännland Apple Ice 2023 just in time for the time of year when you need a light, slightly chilled wine on a terrace.
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Brännland Iscider 2023, 375 ml
Using the natural winter cold of Northern Sweden we concentrate apple juice from the best Swedish apples and ferment the sweet must into an ice wine, an ice cider, with equal parts fresh apple acidity and warm autumnal apple sweetness.
Comments on the product
Andreas Sundgren, founder, Brännland Iscider,
This year’s ice cider is light and elegant, something that characterizes all the wines in the vintage regardless of label. The fermentations, that were carried through entirely using wild yeast, were strong and fast which to some extent changes the finished wine adding width, especially on the palate.
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Brännland Iscider Barrique 2022, 187 ml
This year’s barrel aged ice cider has a lighter barrel signature than in the past, in keeping with the switch to using only large oak barrels.
The result is a more drinkable ice cider without compromising what differentiates it from our other wines.
The barrel aged ice cider is still the best wine from Brännland Iscider for meditation and contemplation but, for this vintage, combines the magic of Stockinger barrels with a more elegant touch. The finished wine straddles a wider range than usual.
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What is ice cider?
What is ice cider?
Ice cider is a still, naturally sweet, wine produced from apples and developed by the wine maker Christian Barthomeuf in Quebec province, Canada, at the end of the 1980:s.
Ice cider can be characterized as an ice wine made using apples instead of grapes as raw material.
Our methods
We work exclusively with fruit from Swedish apple growers. The fruit is pressed on location in our winery in Vännäsby. After pressing we use the natural cold of our landscape to concentrate the apple juice. The concentrated juice is then fermented to the apple ice wine called ice cider.
Our philosophy
We work according to the appellation legislated in Quebec province regulating ice cider. This means that we concentrate the innate sugars of our fruit using natural cold and use no additives whatsoever in our fruit or in our wines with the exception of a low dose of sulphur at bottling.