Durham 'Maybe Someday' Sparkling Cider
Apples, 2019
Mostly California & some Washington > USA
But what’s this? Cider…as a wine? Well, why not? Cider is a terroir driven product, like wine. And also like wine, tree fruit for cider (apples, pears, quinces) can spontaneously ferment. Direct press, and you have wine-like cider full of aromatic complexity, unlike the cider you might be more familiar with that is brewed like beer. In this case, Rob Durham creates mythically delicious ciders, and this one as it matured in bottle an aura of sparkling wine may have arisen. “Or maybe that’s just the cider dreaming of its future. Maybe someday….”
Apples, 2019
Mostly California & some Washington > USA
But what’s this? Cider…as a wine? Well, why not? Cider is a terroir driven product, like wine. And also like wine, tree fruit for cider (apples, pears, quinces) can spontaneously ferment. Direct press, and you have wine-like cider full of aromatic complexity, unlike the cider you might be more familiar with that is brewed like beer. In this case, Rob Durham creates mythically delicious ciders, and this one as it matured in bottle an aura of sparkling wine may have arisen. “Or maybe that’s just the cider dreaming of its future. Maybe someday….”
Apples, 2019
Mostly California & some Washington > USA
But what’s this? Cider…as a wine? Well, why not? Cider is a terroir driven product, like wine. And also like wine, tree fruit for cider (apples, pears, quinces) can spontaneously ferment. Direct press, and you have wine-like cider full of aromatic complexity, unlike the cider you might be more familiar with that is brewed like beer. In this case, Rob Durham creates mythically delicious ciders, and this one as it matured in bottle an aura of sparkling wine may have arisen. “Or maybe that’s just the cider dreaming of its future. Maybe someday….”
Blend: 40% Dabinett, 26% Golden Russet, 16% Ashmead's Kernel and 6% Porter's Perfection organically grown from Harmony Orchards in Tieton, WA along with 8% organic Gravenstein from Mendocino County, CA and 4% organic Newtown Pippin from Santa Cruz County, CA.
ABV: 8.56%
The Story: Rob Durham’s first memory of collecting fruit took place as a child in New Jersey high up in a crab apple tree. His grandmother, Apple Annie, taught him to press those apples in the front yard using her green basket press. Fast forward three decades to a Colorado front yard where now his is daughter picking fruit from an old apple tree. From this tree's bounty in 2014, he would ferment his first cider. Since then, many hours have been spent planting, observing and caring for fruiting trees, bushes and vines. Fruit grown in a good and honest manner that respects and protects the environment, animals and people is very important to the low-intervention winemaking style. All of the vineyards, orchards, ranches and farms worked with are farmed organically or beyond and care deeply about the soil.
Personality: Think parallelograms (mainly rhombus) draped in Irish linen dissolving on your tongue. This Dabinett-heavy blend of apples has been known to call out names of old flames while it sleeps: Hook's Cheddar, Robiola, Humboldt Fog, Ragged Point, Soumaintrain. Off the press, the Dabinett brought youthful candy vibes of pineapple lifesavers and peach rings.
Harmony: Salty oysters on the half-shell or rabbit stew, but also this babe celebrates adventure - mountaineering, fly fishing, and getting muddy of all sorts. Take it with you!