Wild Pippin

Wild Pippin is a rare and unique blend of 100% wild gathered apples. Every year we search the country side around the Finger Lakes for wild apple trees that we feel will add complexity and “wildness” to our ciders. This year we found plenty, and blended them into most of our ciders and made “Wild Pippin”, a crafted blend of sharp, and bitter sharp wild-grown seedling apples. We will likely graft and grow out the best of these varieties to plant in our orchard for future ciders. Will the grafted clones act and taste the same as their wild parents? After primary fermentation we aged the cider in French oak barrels just long enough to integrate this nice rustic character into the cider. We finished the cider with an in bottle secondary fermentation to add elegant and creamy carbonation to balance its wild acidity... enjoy! Show Less