2021 Ume
Apple
CA - Santa Cruz County (Central Coast)
$20.00 / 750 mL Bottle
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Alcohol
A thoughtful blend of hand pressed Mutsu apples from California’s Five Mile Orchard, co-fermented on whole local Santa Rosa plums in French oak for 8 months.
Mutsu apples known colloquially in Japan as the “Million Dollar Apple” were developed at the Aomori Research Station, Kurioshi, Japan in 1937 and brought into the US in 1948. Mutsu, named for the province, is a cross between a Golden Delicious and the Indo variety. Sometimes known as Crispin, the apple is large, sweet but tangy, sharp and acidic. In 1906, botanist Luther Burbank hybridized the Santa Rosa plum from its original cultivar, prunus salicina, widely grown in Asia and Japan. He is responsible for over 100 varieties of plums, cultivated from 12 seedlings imported from Japan.
"Blind wood" refers to portions of branches where no buds open; there are no leaves, shoots, or spurs. It's common to many varieties and in old, long-abandoned fruit trees. For farmers and cultivators, this is an undesirable quality; it requires patience to cut back that branch and turn it into a productive one.
For us here at Blindwood; cider is about renewing life. Often times the unproductive parts of life must be pruned to ensure that the healthy parts can flourish. To the eye of the patient horticulturalist, it means nothing but potential in the years to come.
It is with this passion for the fruit, botanicals and our constant partnership with nature that we hope is evident with every pour. Our cider is patiently crafted, locally brewed. WE ARE SMALL. WE ARE LOCAL. WE ARE FAMILY.
For us here at Blindwood; cider is about renewing life. Often times the unproductive parts of life must be pruned to ensure that the healthy parts can flourish. To the eye of the patient horticulturalist, it means nothing but potential in the years to come.
It is with this passion for the fruit, botanicals and our constant partnership with nature that we hope is evident with every pour. Our cider is patiently crafted, locally brewed. WE ARE SMALL. WE ARE LOCAL. WE ARE FAMILY.
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