AFTER YOU'VE LEFT ME 2023

BOTTLE

50% Belle de Boskoop and 50% Ingrid Marie from our Cru garden; A complex, slightly oxidative cider expressing notes of wet rocks, rhubarb, bruised apples, sea shells and walnuts. We harvested the two varieties separately and pressed the Ingrid Marie directly to preserve the delicate red fruited and flowery expression it has. It went into beautiful 300L barrels, where they were resting with no top-up for 1 year. With Belle de Boskoop we wanted to amplify the richness, structure and its beloved acidity. Therefore, we did a 2 day maceration, pressed it very hard at 3 bars and put it into stainlees steel tanks on full lees. Here it rested for a year. In August 2024, Ingrid Marie and Belle de Boskoop was blended. 50/50. Tirage was done with only 8g/L of rest sugar, resulting in a very delicate and light bubble.

VARIETY

Belle de Boskoop is our favorite variety. Originally cultivated in Boskoop, Netherlands, this variety is highly popular in Denmark. The trees are robust, grow big and carrying a lot of fruit. They are high in sugar, fragrant and have a great acidity. Their tough structure, make them ideal for macerations, and hard pressings. It yields notes of unripe tropical fruits, grilled lemons and white pepper. We consider it as a friend of Chardonnay in Champagne. Ingrid Marie is our little red darling. A danish variety from Fyn, which is a cross between Cox Orange and Guldborg. It has a wonderful red fruited character reminding us of raspberries and red currant and fragrance like rose petals and hibiscus. It is intriguing like summer apples but intense and complex like Belle de Boskoop. For us it is like Pinot Noir in Champagne.

SINGLE

Our single ciders are single variety and come from one of our best gardens. The trees are more than 100 years old yielding incredible fruit, that we handle with the most care and prestige we can.

The juice of this exceptional fruit is carefully racked into some of our best barrels to ferment and rest on full lies for 12 months without any top-up. We then do tirage with some fresh juice of the following year. Slowly, they are riddled and the dégorgement is performed 6 months after tirage when small delicate bubbles have been created. They are complex, deep and express the terroir and the varieties of which the consist.

Over the years of picking and eating apples we have started to noticing a coherence between how the apples taste and from which tree they origin. Even the same variety can taste very different depending on the tree and where that tree is rooted.

This is far from new thoughts. It is the principle of terroir that has been widely expressed and discussed in the world of wine for centuries. The novelty is that we have started to applying it to apples.

Our single orchard is located in the south of Aarhus consisting of around 20 trees, that stand on a slightly steep slope. They were planted in the 1920´s in clay soil mixed with stones. The varieties Belle de Boskoop and Ingrid Marie are planted here and they thrive perfectly with the light drainage and good stable temperatures the soil provides.