BRÄNNLAND ICE CIDER BELLE DE BOSKOOP 2015

Using the natural winter cold of Northern Sweden we concentrate apple juice from the best Swedish apples and ferment the sweet must into an ice wine, an ice cider, with equal parts fresh apple acidity and warm autumnal apple sweetness.

APPEARANCE Deep amber with notes of deep red.

BRÄNNLAND ICE CIDER NOSE BELLE DE BOSKOOP 2015 Round dark sugar, rum and calvados notes, forest floor after a spring rain.

ABV: 9,5% PALATE RESIDUAL SUGAR: 220 grams/litre BOTTLED: 2019 Heavy Caribbean caramel-sweetness balanced by a clear, singing VINTAGE: 650 bottles 187 ml – bottles/case 6 apple acidity.

COMMENTS ON TASTING NOTES SERVING TEMPERATURE: 8-12 degrees centigrade Andreas Sundgren Graniti, Brännland Cider STORAGE: Very good ageing potential. Brännland Iscider Belle de Boskoop is the finest , sweetest must from the exceptional 2015 vintage, fermented wild on a 114 liter oak barrel PAIRING: Meditational wine. Buy a bottle. Keep it for and left to age on the same barrel, untouched, for 36 months. The a long time. Enjoy on a special occasion. prolonged ageing has given the ice cider a depth and weight that is second to no other dessert wine. All the characteristics we associate with barrel aged ice cider are augmented, oxidative, avec-like notes of dark sugar and caramel dominate. Just before bottling we’ve added a touch of the Brännland Iscider Barrique 2018 to turn up that apple Innehåller sulfiter • Contains sulfites • Enthält Sulfite • Contient des sulfites • acidity and balance the 220 grams of residual sugar we’ve left in the Contiene solfiti • Contiene sulfitos Belle de Boskoop. Brännland Iscider can be enjoyed on its own, chilled or in the company of desserts & cheeses. BRÄNNLAND CIDER ON REQUEST: [email protected] www.brannlandcider.se | facebook.com/brannlandcider RFP/ORDERS: [email protected] MD/cidermaker: [email protected]