Piquenique, Road Trip Cider (2021)

This is simply delicious sparkling wine that happens to be made from a fruit that’s *not* grapes, apples! The wine is made from two organically farmed orchards, planted predominantly to the Spitzenburg and Honey-crisp apple varieties. The wine fermented very slowly through a cold winter and cold spring until bottled in May. A pet nat that wasn’t bottled in just a few weeks, but instead had an incredibly long primary fermentation that allowed the wine to clarify naturally in an unexpected and beautiful way. This long primary fermentation inspired thought that pet nats, given the appropriate attention, could make extremely elegant sparkling wines that are much more than your typical “farmer fizz.”