Crab Apple + Pumpkin Wine

Tasting Notes

A beautiful peachy colour with fine beaded bubbles, smells of fresh green leaves and apples.  This is a very dry sparkling wine, giving off Brut rosé methode champagne vibes, there's a savoury undertone that almost coats the tongue in minerality.  Take mind, being 14.5% abv and fizzy, it will reach the head quickly!

Winemaking Notes

So how did I get that colour you ask?  The crab apples were sourced from a local garden here in Eketāhuna and were red skinned AND red fleshed!  Stunning!  The pumpkin was a big jolly fulla, sourced from a friends tiny home garden just out of Woodville.  The apples were smashed, the pumpkin was boiled and there was a wee sneaky addition of star anise.  It was all put together and had a quick autumn ferment; too quick in fact.  So I had to backsweeten it, which I chose to do with the last of my honey (I don't have beehives anymore) and for a reason that felt right at the time, some dried thyme.  I left it for two months, it appeared done so I bottled it in July (2024).  Turns out it wasn't done, and undertook a second fermentation in the bottle, and there a sparkling wine was born!

I released this the 1st December 2024 (yesterday) at the Woodville market and I now only have seven bottles left. How exclusive is that?!

• 14.5% ABV
• Minimal sulfites
• Contains honey
• Vegetarian + gluten free