Brännland Iscider Journal #5 <br> Twin bottle releases of Brännland Iscider 2014 and Eden Specialty Ciders The Falstaff 2014.
By 2010 I’d had time to realize that Swedish apples would not do dry wines well because of their high acidity but that, inversely, would likely do a sweet wine well on account of the same acidity. I went searching for a cider, an apple wine, that could retain a natural sweetness to balance the […]
Brännland Iscider Journal #4 <br> Barrique 2018 375 ml 60 bottles
This is a fairly recent vintage that many of you might have tasted in its main format 187 ml. However, after bottling a second round of this in the early fall of 2022 we ran out of small bottles. Seeing as this second round was a touch better than its previous iteration on account of […]
Brännland Iscider Journal #3<br>Brännland Iscider 2015 18.7 cl 60 bottles
The 2015 ice cider was the first vintage we released that we, out of sheer luck, bottled at perfect technical balance. When producing sweet wine we strive for a 1:10 relationship between sugar and acidity and so, as an example, if the total acidity per liter is 15 grams (which is about the average level […]
Brännland Iscider Journal #2<br>Ellenäs Lobo 2014
In 2014 we had successfully produced and sold two vintages commercially, and felt it was time to release some small batches. I don’t remember the reason but likely the theory was as much about what a producer like us was supposed to do at that point as it was about finding some unique terroir. The […]
Brännland Iscider Journal #1<br>Barrique 2016
I think 2016 was the first year we moved our barrels from what used to be a shower room. Why the shower? Well, because it was tiled and had running water and we just didn’t have any other place where we could put them and keep them clean. The shower room seemed a logical choice. […]
Brännland Cider Journal #0<br>August 2022
We’ve been working on The List, by Brännland Iscider, for a while now. We’re offering The List members an opportunity to acquire small batch, rare, intriguing Ice Ciders from us, to enter into a conversation with the wines, and hopefully, with us. For each release I will try and write some notes and tell you the […]