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“Lighten the Mood,” is a blend of cider and mead with specific intentions. It aims to shift how we think about wine purity. We believe it isn't about keeping grapes and apples and honey and muscadines and raspberries separate. It's about pure expression. Expression of one’s self, and in this instance, the collective self. It’s about authenticity. It’s about blending two producers separated by 500 miles, but who share a deep passion for nature and wine and earth and people, and how they might blend and meld together.
So what is exactly in the bottle? This is Brooklyn meets middle-of-nowhere Central NC. This is big city, a small township. This is juxtaposition in harmony. The honey for the mead comes from fingerlakes in rural New York, so there is also an element of rural NC meets rural NY.
We pumped barrel-aged Wildflower honey wine into a freshly emptied cider barrel in the back of Lyndon's truck. We were on a learning trip up north and took the opportunity to visit Enlightenment and take their mead on a road trip down south. We married it with some cider aged in freshly emptied muscadine wine barrels, for that kiss of the south. We blended them together and let them get to know each other. When they were ready they asked for a bit of fresh life, so we bottled conditioned with a touch of fresh muscadine and raspberry juice.
Botanist & Barrel crafts real southern ciders, sours, and dry fruit wines. We are the Souths only natural cidery focused on spontaneous and wild cultures. We focus on light-handed winemaking using old world methods with modern sensibilities. We lean toward whole fruit fermentation and make natural beverages with no additives (like sulfites) or forced carbonation.
We love to craft healthy adult lifestyle beverages for any occasion. All of our ciders and wines contain little to no residual sugar and are inherently low in calories. We support our local farmers using only sustainably and organically sourced fruits, including blueberries, apples and more from our organic estate farm. Our ciders and wines are raw, wild, unfined, unfiltered & unpasteurized. Feel good about what you drink.
We love to craft healthy adult lifestyle beverages for any occasion. All of our ciders and wines contain little to no residual sugar and are inherently low in calories. We support our local farmers using only sustainably and organically sourced fruits, including blueberries, apples and more from our organic estate farm. Our ciders and wines are raw, wild, unfined, unfiltered & unpasteurized. Feel good about what you drink.
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